Product Description: "A gay, punk-rock Chinese American in the age of AIDS, Chin confronts all manner of hypocrisy."—San Francisco ChronicleThrough intertwined short stories, 98 Wounds dissects the inexorable dualities present in every moment that matters: pleasure and pain, contentment and longing, mercy and brutality, living and dying...read more

'Within the Japanese poetic form of the zuihitsu, Chin reflects on experiences of grief, loss, comfort and illness, and resolve'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: Fiction. Asian American Studies. Gay and Lesbian Studies. As a performance artist, Justin Chin has created eight full-length solo performance works and several shorter works, which have been presented nationally and abroad. ATTACK OF THE MAN-EATING LOTUS BLOSSOMS is a collection of performance art texts, documents, and scripts...read more

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Product Description: In a time when memoirs are often less than they claim to be and essays do not say enough, Justin Chin breaks onto the scene with a collection that is a combination of confession, tirade, journalism, and practical joke.Mongrel is a cross-section of Chin's imagination and experiences that calls into question what it means to be an Asian-American in San Francisco, the effect your family will always have on you, and the role sexuality plays in your life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The author explores his identity as an Asian, a gay man, a poet, and a lover, satirizing society's strictures and his own life experiences in stream-of-consciousness poems that deal with race, desire, and loss. Original. Tour. IP. (view table of contents)