Works
Chinatown
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Categories: metropolis
Statuses: Updating
In modern Chinese literature, Lin Yutang's Chinatown belongs to the category of early "immigrant literature". In the works before it, there were few works with similar thematic content and emotional expression. It is like a bridge connecting the foreign novels of the twenties and thirties, which emphasized national consciousness and patriotic feelings, and the contemporary works, which expressed the pursuit and disillusionment of the "American dream". The author writes in a loose style, using his childhood...