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Our Laundry, Our Town - My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Hardcover)
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Our Laundry, Our Town - My Chinese American Life from Flushing to the Downtown Stage and Beyond (Hardcover)
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With humor and grace, the memoir of a first-generation Chinese
American in New York City. Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that
decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin
Eng's upbringing in Flushing, Queens, in the 1970s. Back then, his
family was one of the few immigrant Chinese families in a far-flung
neighborhood in New York City. His parents had an arranged marriage
and ran a Chinese hand laundry. From behind the counter of his
parents' laundry and within the confines of a household that was
rooted in a different century and culture, he sought to reconcile
this insular home life with the turbulent yet inspiring street life
that was all around them--from the faux martial arts of TV's Kung
Fu to the burgeoning underworld of the punk rock scene. In the
1970s, NYC, like most of the world, was in the throes of
regenerating itself in the wake of major social and cultural
changes resulting from the counterculture and civil rights
movements. And by the 1980s, Flushing had become NYC's second
Chinatown. But Eng remained one of the neighborhood's few Chinese
citizens who did not speak fluent Chinese. Finding his way in the
downtown theater and performance world of Manhattan, he discovered
the under-chronicled Chinese influence on Thornton Wilder's
foundational Americana drama, Our Town. This discovery became the
unlikely catalyst for a psyche-healing pilgrimage to Hong Kong and
Guangzhou, China-his ancestral home in southern China-that led to
writing and performing his successful autobiographical monologue,
The Last Emperor of Flushing. Learning to tell his own story on
stages around the world was what proudly made him whole. As cities,
classrooms, cultures, and communities the world over continue to
re-examine the parameters of diversity, equity, and inclusion, Our
Laundry, Our Town will reverberate with a broad readership.
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