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| | Teaching Asian American Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | References to the red-faced deity of war and poets, Kuan Kung, depict a wah kiu culture at odds with the heroic one of the motherland. |
 | | In Lo Kuan-Chung's Yuan dynasty novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Kuan Kung appears as one of three legendary heroes who swear a famous Oath of the Peach Garden, suppress a rebellion, and reorganize the broken empire of Han into the legendary three kingdoms of Wei, Shu, and Wu (Lo 56, Harvey 26365, Williams 21112). |
 | | Immigration, however, has altered Kuan Kung's martial aspect: having put away pen and sword in anticipation of scaling the gold mountain of America, he is left temporarily vulnerable. |
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