Eric Liu, the son of Chinese immigrants, grows up learning to downplay his ethnic identity in the mostly white community in America. He is a successful young American, writing speeches for President Bill Clinton after graduating from Yale University, but Liu nevertheless wonders what degree his Chinese heritage has shaped his status and personality in contemporary American society. In order to solve this problem, Liu writes The Accidental Asian in half cultural commentary and half memoir to record the process of racial assimilation. In this book, Liu expresses his desire that race may one day become an irrelevant category for all people in American society, and part of the richness of this book comes from the New York’s Chinatown and some pictures