Community In Frank Chin’s Donald Duk

Frank Chin(1991)is one of the representatives of Chinese American literature.He is famous for exposing the sufferings of Chinese people in the American mainstream society,awakening their historical memory and subverting the stereotype of racism.His Donald Duk(1991)is widely considered as a representative work of Chinese American literature,which tells a story about a twelve-year-old boy living in American Chinatown,and depicts the protagonist’s family environment,the view of living in Chinatown as well as the experience of early Chinese labors who built the Pacific Railroad in the US.Based on the sociologist Ferdinand T(?)nnies’ community theory,this study explores the community reflected in Donald Duk.Through an analysis of the influence of community by blood and community of place,specifically,Donald Duk’s family and Chinese labors as well as Chinatown residents in the process of the protagonist’s identity cognition,the author of this study argues that Donald Duk’s family,Chinese labors and Chinatown residents pursue the “community of spirit” in the struggle against anti-Chinese society,and it is the pursuit of the “community of spirit” that leads Donald Duk to reconstruct his ethnic identity and cultural confidence.Obviously,Donald Duk helps with the dissemination of the Chinese culture and noble spirit to the world,and its cultural function and literary aesthetic value are socially significant.It is hoped that this study could provide a new perspective for the interpretation of Chinese American literature,Frank Chin’s Donald Duk in particular.