Wendy Cheng is professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. She is author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

"[E]ssential reading. . . Island X offers so many things at once to the Taiwanese American canon and political education, recovering what was discounted and articulating what continues to be murky, without the self-consciousness of a memoir or the distance of an outsider-observer. It is a labor of deep, lasting love from a daughter who brings honor to her radical parents’ legacy and hope to her children’s future."

Wendy Cheng is professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. She is author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

"[E]ssential reading. . . Island X offers so many things at once to the Taiwanese American canon and political education, recovering what was discounted and articulating what continues to be murky, without the self-consciousness of a memoir or the distance of an outsider-observer. It is a labor of deep, lasting love from a daughter who brings honor to her radical parents’ legacy and hope to her children’s future."

Wendy Cheng is professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at University of Southern California. She is author of The Changs Next Door to the Díazes: Remapping Race in Suburban California and coauthor of A People’s Guide to Los Angeles.

"[E]ssential reading. . . Island X offers so many things at once to the Taiwanese American canon and political education, recovering what was discounted and articulating what continues to be murky, without the self-consciousness of a memoir or the distance of an outsider-observer. It is a labor of deep, lasting love from a daughter who brings honor to her radical parents’ legacy and hope to her children’s future."