- Chinese, Chinese Americans, Fiction, Fiction, general
Captures the tone of everyday life in an American Chinatown, describing its bachelor society and focusing on a young couple who must reconcile their dreams of married life with reality.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Louis Chu
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 250
- Publisher
- Lyle Stuart, L. Stuart, University of Washington Press
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780818403958
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