Standup comic, actor and fan favorite from HBO's Silicon Valley and the film Crazy Rich Asians shares his memoir of growing up as a Chinese immigrant in California and making it in Hollywood.
"I turned down a job in finance to pursue a career in stand-up comedy. My dad thought I was crazy. But I figured it was better to disappoint my parents for a few years than to disappoint myself for the rest of my life. I had to disappoint them in order to pursue what I loved. That was the only way to have my Chinese turnip cake and eat an American apple pie too."
Jimmy O. Yang is a standup comedian, film and TV actor and fan favorite as the character Jian Yang from the popular HBO series Silicon Valley. In How to American, he shares his story of growing up as a Chinese immigrant who pursued a Hollywood career against the wishes of his parents: Yang arrived in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at age 13, learned English by watching BET RapCity for three hours a day, and worked as a strip club DJ while pursuing his comedy career. He chronicles a near deportation episode during a college trip Tijuana to finally becoming a proud US citizen ten years later. Featuring those and many other hilarious stories, while sharing some hard-earned lessons, How to American mocks stereotypes while offering tongue in cheek advice on pursuing the American dreams of fame, fortune, and strippers.

为什么移民给经济带来的影响，不遵循供求规律？为什么贸易会导致失业率上升和工资下降？谁曾经真正解释了增长的原因和发生的时机？
从新德里到达喀尔，从巴黎到华盛顿特区，移民问题、收入差距、全球化困局、技术颠覆、经济增长放缓、气候变化加速等问题随处可见，如何妥善处理这些问题，或许是我们这个时代的核心挑战。我们已然拥有了应对这些挑战的资源，但缺乏能够帮助我们消弭分歧、重建互信的理念，以及，我们常常错用了经济学。
在这本革命性的著作中，2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主、麻省理工学院著名经济学家班纳吉和迪弗洛直面上述挑战，以明晰优雅的笔触阐述了经济学领域的前沿研究成果，提出了诸多富有创新和启发性的解决方案，以令人信服的理由阐释了我们应该采取哪些明智之举，以应对经济增长、移民、贫困等迫切挑战。

Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction
National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as “picture brides” nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times.