How Interior Chinatown's satire of TV works...on TV

Hulu recently adapted Charles Yu's award-winning novel, Interior Chinatown, into a television show, starring  Jimmy O. Yang playing a background character actor, whose real life starts to enmesh itself in his television work. It's both a satire of the television industry and a critique of how the media treats Asian people. 

Writer Jen Sookfong Lee chats with Elamin Abdelmahmoud about the adaptation of Interior Chinatown and if its metafictional premise translates on screen.

You can listen to the full discussion from today's show on CBC Listen or on our podcast, Commotion with Elamin Abdelmahmoud, available wherever you get your podcasts.

Interview with Jen Sookfong Lee produced by Jean Kim.