Kinfolk A Novel of China
About the book:
Kinfolk A Novel of China book
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Publisher: Open Road Media
Publish date: (August 21, 2012)
ASIN: B008F4NQRW
Pages: 414 eBook pages can be different
Language: English
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Chinese, Romance, Cultural Heritage
Description
THE THEATER IN CHINATOWN was crowded to the doors. Every night actors brought from Canton played
and sang the old Chinese operas. If Billy Pan, the manager, announced a deficit at the end of the lunar
year, businessmen contributed money to cover it. The theater was a bulwark of home for them. Their
children went to American schools, spoke the American language, acted like American children. The
fathers and mothers were not highly educated people and they could not express to the children what
China was, except that it was their own country, which must not be forgotten. But in the theater the
children could see for themselves what China was. Here history was played again and ancient heroes
came to life before their eyes. It was the only place in Chinatown which could compete with the movies.
Parents brought their children early and stayed late. They talked with friends and neighbors, exchanged
sweetmeats and gossip, and sat spellbound and dreaming when the curtain went up to show the figures
who were contemporary with their ancestors.
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