Illustrated Lecture: The Monkey King and I: The Making of American Born Chinese

In this illustrated lecture via Skype, cartoonist Gene Luen Yang describes how he created his critically-acclaimed graphic novel American Born Chinese, shares the book’s connections to both modern American pop culture and the Ming dynasty novel Journey to the West, and discusses the comics medium’s place in Asian American culture.

Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Chinese Department, the Program in East Asian Studies, the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and the Christian A. Johnson Enrichment Fund. Free