The creative background of Chinatown

From the historical background of writing, "Chinatown" is a work created by Lin Yutang in the 1920s and 1930s. At that time, the entire country of China was engaged in a monkey-playing sport, and was committed to turning every Chinese citizen into a monkey. A democratic and civilized revolution was brewing in the island's political arena. At that time, Lin Yutang went to Taiwan in his early years and was not in mainland China. At the same time, he was also affected by his own experience, so the author narrated the background of a large number of immigrants at the beginning of the novel.

Judging from Lin Yutang’s own experience, he was influenced by a large number of Western ideas while living in the United States, which led him to integrate Western cultural ideas and Eastern cultural ideas in the creation of his works, and wrote "Chinatown". "" is an "immigration literary work", and his personal political color is also revealed in some parts of the work.

From the perspective of the content conception of "Chinatown", Lin Yutang is more based on his life experience of a family living together and loving each other in his hometown during his childhood as the material, describing the life of Old Tom and his family in New York's Chinatown is also in the same boat as the economy's "entrepreneurial" journey. In this way, "Chinatown" can better express the admiration and admiration for American culture and material civilization, as well as the nostalgia and nostalgia for the motherland and its traditional culture.