Kuang’s novel Yellowface was fantastic. Kuang Asks: ‘What If Mao Was A Teenage Girl?’ The third volume in Kuang’s Poppy War series is out now. Here, however, everything changed for me when Alice and Peter get to Hell and the place is a campus. Kuang’s novel Yellowface offers a literary exploration of cultural appropriation taken to a new degree. Alice and Peter are big characters with big minds and big egos — but they are never boring or dull.