Eat a Bowl of Tea (The Sixties in America)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis H. Chu
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism, Domestic realism, Satire
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Parents and children, Love or romance, New York City, 1940’s, American Dream, Asia or Asians, Immigration or emigration, Fathers, Barbershops or barbers, Multiculturalism, San Francisco, Asian Americans, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, Confucianism
- Locales: Chinatown, San Francisco, CA, Chinatown, New York
The Work
In Eat a Bowl of Tea, both Wang Wah Gay, owner of a mahjong club, and Lee Gong, a retiree, are old “bachelors” in New York City’s Chinatown. They decide to marry their children, Wang Ben Loy, a local waiter, and Lee Mei Oi, who lives in China. Their separation from their wives in China for more than twenty-five years prompts the two old men to agree that Ben Loy should bring Mei Oi to the United States after their marriage. Mei Oi, as a newcomer, has difficulty adjusting to the male-oriented communal life in Chinatown, and Ben Loy, pressured by work and...
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