The fiction of Chinese American poet and art critic John Yau is best understood as the transformation of a personal dilemma into a formal imperative; that is, his experience of feeling outside both his own ancestry and the American culture into which...

This article examines the subversive strategy of parody in John Yau's poetic series entitled "Genghis Chan: Private Eye," by situating Yau's work in the contexts of postmodern poetics, Hollywood films, and Asian American history and culture. While engaging with some major critical views...

ALAN Yau wasn't as happy as I was expecting. Having neatly evaded this week's stock market crash, the 45- year-old Hong Kong-born entrepreneur recently sold a majority stake in his fashionable restaurants, the Michelin-starred Hakkasan and Yauatcha which today have been reconferred with a...

In the following essay, Xiaojing argues that Yau's “Genghis Chan” series “connects postmodernism in poetry to debates about postmodernism and Asian American identity in ways that engage larger issues concerning the relationship between postmodern discourses and minority American literatures.”

In the following essay, Morris analyzes the relationship of Yau's art criticism and his poems “Electric Drills” and “The Telephone Call.”

In the following essay, Foster discusses Yau as a Chinese American poet, contending that “his work has much wider implications than such labels may imply.”