Zhong Yilin's Media Comments

A great significance of the literary work Chinatown lies in that it has changed our understanding of the world. Without Chinatown, our understanding of the world would be particularly narrow, but with such a literary work, our understanding of the world would be different.

-"Dialogue: The value of literature in this world can be seen in various ways. Harvest.

Chinatown, China City, exists in the alleys occupied by Chinese from all over the world. Audio halls, restaurants, Xinhua Bookstore, massage rooms, gangs, prostitutes, stowaways, wage earners, and so on. Everyone has his own story, either happy or sad, or love or hate. Everything has roots, and every root is closely related to Chinatown. They lived at the bottom of society and moved from China to London, England. They can and can only live in the same house, eat the same food and make friends with the same people. They still live in the old times, and London has entered post-modernism.

-China Writers Network

Although the author covers all aspects of London's black-and-white society and gray areas in his novels, Chinatown brings us not only an adventure and adventure, but a vivid and colorful ukiyo-e picture of the life of illegal overseas Chinese immigrants in this different world.

-China Publishing Media Business Daily

Zhong Yilin's Chinatown is reminiscent of Lao She's Teahouse or Xia Yan's Under the Roof. The difference is that this novel tells the story of overseas China people in the 2nd/kloc-0th century.

—— Writer of Taiwan Province Province, Sweden: Wen Fenchen-Ma Yueran/Chen Wenfen

Chinatown is a sketch of "non-existent" people: stowaways, clients, Chinese restaurant chefs, food delivery staff, lesbians, sellers of pirated CDs, refugee couples, vendors in vegetable markets, restaurant waiters who dropped out of school, uneducated princelings, drug dealers, smugglers, supermarket porters, snakeheads, prostitutes, Jianghu gangsters ... They have nothing, no identity, and so on. They are all "black" people, and in official language, they are illegal residents or illegal immigrants.

Not only in the boundary between history and law, but also because of the aphasia of overseas Chinese writers in this field and subject matter, these illegal immigrants, who have no right to speak, have never appeared in any contemporary literary works, and their true colors and their living conditions in this world have become a veritable blank. Chinatown is written about such a "non-existent" group.

-Sina reading

Life-long drama in a street, life and death are articles.

-Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House

They are people who "don't exist" in the mainstream society: illegal immigrants, refugee couples, princelings' children, rich second generation, drug dealers, porters, snakeheads, prostitutes ... Chinatown tells the life and spiritual history of overseas Chinese who really live in this land of Chinatown and have been passed down from generation to generation, but have been forgotten by literature and history. The heavy and arduous theme of illegal immigrants, due to the absence of overseas Chinese writers, has formed a shocking blank in the history of contemporary literature in China. Zhong Yilin's Chinatown filled this gap for the first time.

-Amazon editor recommended

London, new york, Los Angeles ... Where there are China people, there is Chinatown. However, we can see antique archways and traditional festivals from numerous materials, but we can't see the people living in them. Xia Zhiqing once criticized Lin Yutang's "Chinatown" for being ungrounded and lacking in details, which is the imagination of the literati elite to Chinatown. British writer Zhong Yilin's novel Chinatown is set against the background of illegal immigrants from China who live in London's Chinatown.

-Newspapers

In the19th century, the British writer Dickens wrote a tale of two cities, linking London and Paris. Today, when we look at Zhong Yilin's Chinatown, we can see two cities, one is London, and the other is a spiritual island with hometown memories left by China people who live on the edge of London society.

-New Business Daily | Book Review Square

Such stories, such details, from riff-raff's experience, come to you like light, as if it were the light of life, but in fact, it is an arrow that penetrates the heart. Watching, it seems that you have absorbed all the oxygen, so you have to hold your breath and even suffocate. ..... ants who "search up and down" on shoelaces have struggled all their lives. Even if you climb up from the sole, you are still an ant on your shoes. The huge gap still exists, that is, the cultural identity that the "other" can never complete. Residents of Chinatown can only live in Chinatown, the China society in their minds, not the real world outside this street, Britain.

-Youth Literature Magazine

Inadvertently, I, a student studying in Britain, lived in "Chinatown" in London, so I came into contact with the marginalized people who came to Britain from China to seek gold. They don't know English, they do illegal business, and they can't go back after they come out. There are chefs who make money and send them back to raise their wives and children, illegal immigrants who sell pirated CDs, rich girls who become prostitutes, and princelings who lead a drunken life. Most of them have no legal status, but they are still alive and well.

This is a set of gouache and landscape paintings.

-Reader: mandolin

The scenery is cruel.

Reader: Look at this crazy scene.