InAmy Tan'snovels, shepays much attention totherelationship betweenChineseimmigrantmotherandAmericanborn daughteras well as the conflictsbetween the ChineseandAmericanculture.
Last July, QSL Sports, a company backed by a Chinese tycoon, Adrian Cheng, and a Chinese-born American entrepreneur, Kenny Huang, reached an agreement with the government to create a youth league.
The American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner accidentally inherits a throne close to extinction and revives it, creating one of the world's most powerful and wealthy monarchies, and surely the only one of any significance to have gained in political power in modern times.