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The gist is clear enough: Wei-Chen wants to prove himself apart from his parent, and that desire for independence puts him on a parallel track with Jin. The details of this cosmology and the show’s particular take on it are never explained in full, partly because it’s not important. A prologue informs us he’s actually the son of Sun Wukong (Daniel Wu), also known as the Monkey King - a legendary figure and protagonist of the classic novel “Journey to the West.” With his father’s stolen staff in hand, Wei-Chen has come to Earth from Heaven in search of a MacGuffin he calls the Fourth Scroll, which he believes can help quell an uprising against Heaven’s Jade Emperor.

And when a new student named Wei-Chen (Jim Liu) shows up, Jin gets assigned to show him around, clearly because Wei-Chen is also Chinese.īut Wei-Chen is not what he seems. His coach and classmates keep calling him “Jim.” A teammate quotes a catchphrase from an old sitcom that trades in ugly stereotypes. Every day, Jin deals with microaggressions that stop just short of explicit racism.

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Loosely based on Gene Luen Yang’s 2006 graphic novel and created by Kelvin Yu of “Bob’s Burgers” and “Master of None,” “American Born Chinese” revolves around Jin Wang (Ben Wang), a rising sophomore desperate to fit into his majority-white high school - so much so that he’s ditched his nerdy friends who like comics and cosplay for some soccer jocks, and shoplifts a trendy jacket his mom deems too expensive to buy at full price.

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