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Amid an absolutelystacked mould , Stephanie Hsu ( Everything Everywhere All at Once , Nora from Queens ) has been throw as a Edgar Guest star in the Modern Disney+ serial publication American Born Chinese . grant toVariety , “ Hsuwill appear as Shiji Niangniang , the Goddess of Stones , who mould in a modern day jewelry shop along with her magic domestic dog . ”

American Born Chineseis based on the graphical novel of the same name by Gene Luen Yang that depicts the intersection of Chinese mythology and family through the enmeshing of three storylines . Kelvin Yu is balance to indite , produce , and play as the showrunner for the show , which already reads as being much more action - oriented than the original lifelike novel , which told a grounded , careful plot line amid magic and identity . Destin Daniel Cretton ( Shang - Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings ) directs and executive produces .

In the Disney+ show , the series will follow Jin Wang ( Ben Wang ) , who is struggling to balance his high schoolhouse social life and the pressures he feel at dwelling . When Jin runs into Taiwanese exchange student Wei - Chen ( Jim Liu ) on the first twenty-four hour period of school , “ their worlds collide as Jin becomes entangled in a battle of Taiwanese mythic gods . Identity , culture and home are radical throughout , ” according to Variety .

Hail to Hsu.

Hail to Hsu.Photo: Allyson Riggs/Courtesy of A24

Also in the cast is Michelle Yeoh and Ke Huy Quan , both of whom starred alongside Hsu in the Daniels ’ multiverse photographic film , Everything Everywhere All at Once . bring out in a Disney press release , Yeoh ( who was also in Cretton ’s Shang - Chi ) will make for Guanyin , an retiring aunt , who help her nephew Wei - Chen navigate the challenge of American mellow schooltime while keep up her secret identity as the all - powerful Buddhist bodhisattva of pity . Quan play as Freddy Wong , a fictional character from a popular mid-1990s situation comedy . Also in the cast is Daniel Wu as the Monkey King , Sun Wukong — the fabled , all - powerful graven image of the Chinese epic Journey to the West , who get into our Earth in search of his son . There ’s no word yet on when American Born Chinese might be premier , but it ’s high on our list of must - look out serial when it does .

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