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For more than 30 years, Paul Yee has written about his Chinese Canadian traditions in award-winning catalogs for young viewers as well as adult nonfiction. Here, in his first work of fiction for men and women, he will take us on the harrowing quest into a milestone event of Canadian record: the utilization of Chinese coolies to help build the Canadian Pacific Railway in Uk Columbia in unsafe conditions. Following the CPR is built in 1885, Yang Hok, a previous coolie, treks along the railway to return his half-Chinese/half-Native boy to the boy's mom, where he confronts the conflicts arising from road building among the Chinese and Native peoples. Hok's guide on the often perilous trip, Sam Bing Lew, also of mixed Chinese-Native bloodstream, urges Hok to adopt his boy to China, while Hok has dreams of finding fortune in America. Both men acknowledge little, as much issues fester between Chinese and Natives at a time when both races are disdained as inferior by whites ("redbeards"). This far-reaching book crackles with the brutal, visceral energy of the time - an interval proclaimed by contraband, illegitimate playing, disfigurement, and death. In addition, it depicts the bawdy world of Chinese "bachelors" whose families remained in China while they worked well in Canada and who enjoyed more freedom to reside their lives without restraint. Yang Hok is not a fairly easy man to like; but through the bloodstream and sweating of his experience, he aspires to be the "superior man" he knows he should be. Boldly frank and steeped ever sold, A Superior Man paints a vivid portrait of the knowledge of the Chinese in THE UNITED STATES in the 19th hundred years. Paul Yee's 27 catalogs for teenagers include the Governor General's Award-winning Ghost Train. This is his first book for adults.
