The Chickencoop Chinaman (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)

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*Oakland. Principally African American district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where the protagonist’s friend Kenji has an apartment, in which most of the play is set.

Chinatown. Chinese district of an unspecified American city. Tam Lum comes from California, so he may be from San Francisco or Oakland’s Chinatown districts. The “chickencoop” in the title refers to Chin’s perception of American Chinatowns as zoos or dirty, noisy, foul- smelling places occupied by people who speak an unintelligible language. In many of his works, Chin depicts the...

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