Poetry. Asian American Studies. This exciting chapbook presents a series of pieces which assert a very contemporary, non-categorizable poetics. With its cover, a reproduction of a NOI-ZEE BOX fireworks label, and its in-your-face title, as well as the many xeroxes of photos in the book, UNCLE CHEN'S ORIENTAL SLAPSTICK also asserts a complex critique of racism and orientalism. Among the poems are I. The Chinese Exclusion Act, Socrates Queries the Buddha, X. The Forbidden City, XI. The Mandate of Heaven, XIII. Tu Fu Hits the Road and Sleepers Awake. Chris Chen, composer of Symphony For A Billion, neurosurgeon, rocket scientist, is the sentimental lead singer, Shanghai Slim, of the seminal 80s rock band, The Hong Kong Cavaliers. UNCLES CHEN'S ORIENTAL SLAPSTICK is his first book. (from About the author) Saddlestapled chapbook.