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C. Y. Lee (author)

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Chin Yang Lee (born December 23, 1917) is 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 writer for his 2006 film 10,000 Apologies with. [1]

25 relations: Alhambra, California, Asian Americans, Broadway theatre, Chinatown, San Francisco, Chinese American literature, David Henry Hwang, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flower Drum Song, Flower Drum Song (film), Grove Press, Hunan, Jack Soo, James Shigeta, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Times, Mark Taper Forum, Nancy Kwan, Novel, Radio Free Asia, Rodgers and Hammerstein, San Francisco, Southwest University, The Flower Drum Song, William Morrow and Company, Yale University.

Alhambra, California

Alhambra is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California, United States, approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent.

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Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.

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Chinatown, San Francisco

The Chinatown centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and the largest Chinese enclave outside Asia.

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Chinese American literature

Chinese American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of Chinese descent.

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David Henry Hwang

David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, Jr. and John C. Farrar.

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Flower Drum Song

Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

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Flower Drum Song (film)

Flower Drum Song is a 1961 film adaptation of the 1958 Broadway musical Flower Drum Song, written by the composer Richard Rodgers and the lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II.

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Grove Press

Grove Press is an American publishing imprint that was founded in 1947.

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Hunan

Hunan is the 7th most populous province of China and the 10th most extensive by area.

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Jack Soo

Jack Soo (October 28, 1917 – January 11, 1979) was a Japanese American actor.

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James Shigeta

James Saburo Shigeta (June 17, 1929 – July 28, 2014) was an American film and television actor.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Mark Taper Forum

The Mark Taper Forum is a 739-seat thrust stage at the Los Angeles Music Center designed by Welton Becket and Associates on the Bunker Hill section of Downtown Los Angeles.

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Nancy Kwan

Nancy "Ka Shen" Kwan (born May 19, 1939) is a Hong Kong-born American actress, who played a pivotal role in the acceptance of actors of Asian ancestry in major Hollywood film roles.

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Novel

A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally in prose, which is typically published as a book.

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Radio Free Asia

Radio Free Asia (RFA) is a private, nonprofit international broadcasting corporation that broadcasts and publishes online news, information, and commentary to listeners in East Asia while "advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy." Founded in the 1950s as an anti-communist propaganda operation, RFA is currently funded by the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), an independent agency of the United States government responsible for all non-military, international broadcasting sponsored by the U.S. government (such as Radio Free Europe), which appoints the board of RFA.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein

Rodgers and Hammerstein refers to composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together were an influential, innovative and successful American musical theatre writing team.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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Southwest University

Southwest University (SWU) is a comprehensive university in Chongqing, China.

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The Flower Drum Song

The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee, first published in 1957.

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William Morrow and Company

William Morrow and Company is an American publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Y._Lee_(author)

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