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C. Y. Lee

The Flower Drum Song

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The plot here is a Chinese-American man has two sons. One follows the Chinese traditions. The other is thoroughly Americanized. The father claims the right to decide which woman his sons will marry.The book runs in the opposite direction as the movie. While the movie follows two Chinese girls seeking to marry the right man, in the book it is the two sons of Master Wang who must find a suitable girl to marry.Flower Drum Song was also a musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on tour. The movie was ground breaking because every actor who appeare… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Sloan, Sam (Solist)
  • ISBN: 978-4-87187-143-3
  • EAN: 9784871871433
  • Produktnummer: 32789194
  • Verlag: Ishi Pr
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 252 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 322 g
  • Gewicht: 322

Über den Autor


Chin Yang Lee or C. Y. Lee was a Chinese American author best known for his 1957 novel The Flower Drum Song, which inspired the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song and the eponymous 1961 film which was nominated for five Academy Awards. He wrote many other books. His regular job was writing for the Chinese Language newspapers in New York. Chin Yang Lee (Li Jinyang) was born in December 27, 1915 into a scholarly family in Hunan, China. He also lived in Burma, India and Indo China. In 1940 he received his BA degree from National Southwest Associated University in Yunnan, China. He came to the United States in 1943. He attended Yale and Columbia Universities and in 1947 he received his MA from the Department of Drama at Yale University. He served as City Editor of Chinese World, a San Francisco paper, and Young China, a Chinese Language daily newspaper in San Francisco. He was a feature language program writer for Radio Free Asia. He died of kidney failure in Los Angeles, California on November 8, 2018 at the age of 102.

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