Introduction to "Three Generations of Coast"
This long realistic immigration-themed novel focuses on the famous three-generation inheritance curse in the Chinese community in North America, and takes the ups and downs of the Fujian immigrant Lin family over the past sixty years as the main line. In the 1960s, Lin Jingyuan went to California to pursue his career. He relied on his excellent technology to seize the development dividends of Silicon Valley, worked hard to establish a parts industry, and spent half his life savings to purchase real estate. His greatest wish in life was to build a solid foundation overseas and create a Chinese family that would last for generations. The second-generation heir, Lin Chengan, was born in ABC. He has been wandering between two cultures since he was a child. He has witnessed first-hand the invisible barriers that are difficult to overcome for Asians in the workplace, and the fierce collision between marriage and career continuity and the traditional concepts of his father's generation. When the third generation Lin Mailun was born, the native Chinese culture was completely broken. He did not understand Chinese, ignored the family's past struggles, refused to take over the business, and his personal values were completely localized. High inheritance taxes, social barriers, and intergenerational ideological divisions have continuously impacted the family business. The property accumulated by the ancestors has been lost several times and finally changed hands. The obsession of crossing the ocean to the other shore in the past has gradually come to nothing. Three generations have three lives. The first generation desperately landed ashore, the second generation struggled and hesitated, and the third generation no longer felt homesick. Using the microcosm of a family's rise and fall, the author calmly analyzes the multiple practical dilemmas of overseas immigrants losing their wealth and cultural connections, and explores the true destination and meaning of roots of the drifters.
