Eat a Bowl of Tea (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Louis H. Chu
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1941-1949
- 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
Places Discussed
*New York Chinatown. New York City’s Chinese quarter, which is the novel’s primary setting. The author lived there and was an active and notable figure in the community. At the close of World War II, Chinatown is a close- knit, predominantly male society of aging bachelors. These old men, separated by racist immigration laws from their wives and families who remain in China, loyally cling to their inflexible, chauvinistic Cantonese sensibilities and customs, oblivious to the changes that China has undergone in their absence and isolated from mainstream...
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