![]() In the last week of May 2023, Yellowface debuted at the eighth spot on the Los Angeles Times bestseller list for hardcover fiction. Writing in the "Acknowledgement" section of the book, Kuang considers her book a "horror story about loneliness in a fiercely competitive industry." This book is Kuang's first foray into the literary fiction genre. The title of the novel, Yellowface, refers to the film industry practice of yellowface, in which white actors are used to portray Asian characters, analogously to blackface, in which white actors use makeup to portray black or African characters. Publisher William Morrow and Company stated in a press release that Yellowface follows "a white author who steals an unpublished manuscript, written by a more successful Asian American novelist who died in a freak accident, and publishes it as her own". In October 2021, Kuang announced that her fifth novel, Yellowface, would be published in 2023. Peter Luo's Starlight Media and SA Inc is set to adapt the Poppy War trilogy for television. It was published in the anthology From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories celebrating 40 years of The Empire Strikes Back. In 2020, she wrote a short story in the Star Wars universe called "Against All Odds" about a Rebel Alliance defender on the ice planet Hoth named Dak Ralter. film subsidiary of China-based Starlight Culture Entertainment Group, optioned the rights to adapt Kuang's Poppy Wars trilogy for television. In December 2020, Starlight Media, the U.S. In October 2020, her first two books in the Poppy Wars trilogy were included in Time magazine's The 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time (The Burning God was not available when the article was published). ![]() ![]() The Poppy War has received mainly favorable reviews, with Publishers Weekly calling it "a strong and dramatic launch to Kuang's career". Her debut novel The Poppy War, a Chinese military fantasy, was published by Harper Voyager in 2018 and is the first book in the Poppy War trilogy. Kuang returned to the United States in the fall of 2020 to pursue a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale University. The following academic year, she studied at University College, Oxford and received an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies. Kuang attended Magdalene College, Cambridge as a recipient of a 2018 Marshall Scholarship, where she earned a Master of Philosophy in Chinese studies. She spent the summer after graduation coaching a debate camp in Colorado. She graduated from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in June 2018. Kuang graduated from the Odyssey Writing Workshop in 2016 and attended the CSSF Novel Writing Workshop in 2017. While in college, Kuang, aged 19, began writing Poppy War during a gap year in China, where she worked as a debate coach the book was published shortly before her 22nd birthday. She attended Georgetown University, majoring in history, attracted by the college's well-known debating team after winning the Tournament of Champions. Kuang grew up in Dallas, Texas and graduated from Greenhill School in 2013. Her father's family experienced the Japanese occupation of Hunan. ![]() Her maternal grandfather fought for Chiang Kai-shek. Her father grew up in Leiyang, in Hunan province, and her mother grew up in Hainan province. Kuang immigrated to the United States from Guangzhou, China, with her family when she was four years old. In addition Kuang has won the Compton Crook Award, the Crawford Award, and the 2020 Astounding Award for Best New Writer, along with being a finalist for the Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Kitschies, and British Fantasy awards for The Poppy War. Babel debuted at the first spot on The New York Times Best Seller list, and won the Blackwell's Book of the Year for Fiction in 2022 and the 2022 Nebula Award for Best Novel. Kuang has received many accolades as an author. Kuang holds graduate degrees in Sinology from Magdalene College, Cambridge and from University College, Oxford, and is currently studying at Yale University. Her newest book is Yellowface, a satirical novel which was published in 2023. Kuang released a stand-alone novel, Babel, or the Necessity of Violence, in 2022. Her first novel, The Poppy War, was released in 2018, followed by the sequels The Dragon Republic in 2019 and The Burning God in 2020. Kuang (born May 29, 1996) is an American fantasy novelist. Astounding Award for Best New Writer (2020). ![]()
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