Chinatown Oriental Theater
About This Novel
The novel focuses on portraits of Chinese entrepreneurship and life in modern North America. Taking the difficult process of establishing a Chinese theater in Chinatown, California, by the wealthy Chinese businessman Ye Jiangnan and his family from 1906 to 1939 as the main line, it depicts the business competition among several Chinese theaters, how Chinese theaters in North America developed and prospered, and the entanglements between Chinese theaters and U. S. Government agencies such as the U. S. Immigration Service and the U. S. Department of Labor. It has created modern portraits of Chinese people in North America such as Ye Jiangnan, the owner of the Oriental Theater, Chen Huan, the wife of Ye, Ren Yonggui, the owner of the Guangtai Theater, Li Bo'an, a Chinese medicine practitioner, Xu Dingwen, the owner of the Fine Video Studio, Cai Die, the Chinatown socialite, as well as Chinese celebrities and theater troupes represented by Yaluo, Xiaofengwei, and Lan Zhaozhao. It demonstrates the important influence of Chinese theater and Chinese Cantonese opera on modern American society and culture, and also demonstrates the outstanding spirit of a generation of Chinese people who help each other abroad, and are tenacious and courageous.
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