Eat a Bowl of Tea (Classics of Asian American Literature) - Kindle edition by Chu, Louis, Ng, Fae Myenne, Chan, Jeffery Paul. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Eat a Bowl of Tea (Classics of Asian American Literature).Reviews: Eat a Bowl of Tea came out in and it is the first Chinese American novel set in Chinese America. That alone should motivate you to buy this book. It's a shame that Louis Chu is no longer with us, he could've authored more books -- "Wow, your mother!". Eat a Bowl of Tea is a novel by Louis Chu. It was the first Chinese American novel set in Chinese www.doorway.rue of its portrayal of the "bachelor society" in New York's Chinatown after World War II, it has become an important work in Asian American studies.
While the writing is simple in Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea, the humor surrounding marital infidelity and sexual inadequacy in Chinese-American culture is spectacular. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard reading a book that I had to set it down to catch my breath, but this book delivers those moments with abandon. Louis Chu's Eat a Bowl of Tea is the most recent addition (and a most welcome one) to the series of Asian-American classics that the University of Washington Press is reprinting in paperback format. Other titles in this series that come to mind are the uncompromisingly naturalistic memoirs of the Filipino-American Carlos Bulosan, America is in the Heart, and the gripping novel about a. Eat a Bowl of Tea remains a groundbreaking and influential work. The first novel to capture the tone and sensibility of everyday life in an American Chinatown, it is an incisive portrayal of Chinese America on the brink of change. Louis Chu () was born near Canton, China. He was the proprietor of a Chinatown record shop and the.
Extract of sample "Book review for Eat A Bowl of Tea by Louis Chu". Louis Chu “ was born in Toishan, China, in October 1, Immigrated to the United States.a master’s degree from New York University ” (4).One of the important characters in the story was Ben Loy the son of a “bachelor” father. After WWII, he was sent to mainland China to get married to his bride Mei Oi and after the marriage he returned to America but lost his sexual powers mysteriously and turned impotent. Taking place in New York's Chinatown in the late s, Eat a Bowl of Tea is the story of the marriage of Ben Loy and Mei Oi, arranged by their respective fathers, Wah Gay and Lee Gong, who are two of the many "bachelor husbands" of Chinatown, married men whose wives were left behind in China when they came to America to work. Initially, Ben Loy is reluctant to travel to China to marry, as he has been enjoying a dissolute social life patronizing prostitutes. An often comic novel, Tea is one of the first works to offer a faithful portrait of New York’s Chinatown. The title comes from an old Chinese herbal remedy: eating a bowl of tea is believed to restore a man’s potency.
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