| 词条 | Chin Yang Lee |
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| name = Chin Yang Lee | native_name = 黎錦揚 | native_name_lang = cn | pronunciation = Lí Jǐnyáng | birth_date = {{Birth date|1915|12|27}} | birth_place = Xiangtan, Hunan, China | death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|11|08|1915|12|27}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | citizenship = American | education = Master of Fine Arts Bachelor of Arts | alma_mater = Yale University National Southwestern Associated University | known_for = The Flower Drum Song | spouse = {{marriage|Joyce Lackey|1963|1997|end=died}} | module = {{Chinese |child=yes |t=黎錦揚|s=黎锦扬|p=Lí Jǐnyáng|w=Li Chin-yang}} }} Chin Yang Lee or C. Y. Lee ({{zh|t=黎錦揚|p=Lí Jǐnyáng}}; December 27, 1915 – November 8, 2018) was 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 the eponymous 1961 film which was nominated for five Academy Awards. Early lifeChin Yang Lee (Li Jinyang) was born in 1915 into a scholarly family in Xiangtan, Hunan, China, the youngest of the eight Li brothers who all achieved national or international fame. His eldest brother, Li Jinxi, was the "father of the Chinese phonetic alphabet" and teacher of Mao Zedong. The second oldest, Li Jinhui, was a pioneering musician considered the "father of Chinese popular music".[1] He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from National Southwestern Associated University, then emigrated to the United States in 1943, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in playwriting from Yale University in 1947 and was a contributor to Radio Free Asia. Lee was a journalist living in and working for two San Francisco Chinatown newspapers, Chinese World and Young China at the time, in the early 1950s, when he was writing Flower Drum Song, expanding it from a short story to a novel.[2][3] The Flower Drum SongBy the 1950s, Lee was barely making a living writing short stories and working as a Chinese teacher, translator and journalist for San Francisco Chinatown newspapers.[1] He had hoped to break into playwriting, but instead wrote a novel about Chinatown, The Flower Drum Song (originally titled Grant Avenue). Lee initially had no success selling his novel, but his agent submitted it to the publishing house of Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. The firm sent the manuscript to an elderly reader for evaluation. The reader was found dead in bed, the manuscript beside him with the words "Read this" scrawled on it. The publishing house did so, and bought Lee's novel, which became a bestseller in 1957.[2][3] The novel, about generational conflict within an Asian American family over an arranged marriage in San Francisco's Chinatown, was adapted into the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, opening in 1958. The original production was the first Broadway show to feature Asian American players. The 1961 film jump-started the careers of the first generation of Asian American actors, including Nancy Kwan, James Shigeta, and Jack Soo. Lee was interviewed on the 2006 DVD release of the movie. On October 2, 2001, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles premiered David Henry Hwang's adaptation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Flower Drum Song to glowing reviews, in the first major theatrical production that had an all-Asian cast of actors and voices.{{Citation needed|date=November 2010}} Its initial run was extended, and after several months, the production moved to Broadway, where the reviews were less than stellar. Lee had worked with Hwang on the rewriting of the musical.[4] Personal lifeLee married Joyce Lackey, an American writer, in 1963. They had two children, Angela and Jay. Joyce died in 1997.[3] In his later life Lee lived in Alhambra, California.[5] On November 8, 2018, he died of kidney failure in Los Angeles, at the age of 102.[6][7] Works
Novels
Short storiesMany of Lee's short stories were published by the New Yorker magazine after the success of his first novel:
PlaysMama From China (2004)[13]Sources
References1. ^Shin, Andrew. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4141820 "'Forty Percent Is Luck': An Interview with C. Y. (Chin Yang) Lee"]. MELUS, vol. 29, no. 2, Elusive Illusions: Art and Reality (Summer, 2004), pp. 77–104, The Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States. Retrieved December 3, 2010 {{subscription}} 2. ^{{Cite web |title=Show History |work=Flower Drum Song |publisher=R&H Theatricals |url=http://www.rnh.com/show_history.asp?id=FD |accessdate=October 29, 2010 }}{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 3. ^Lewis, p. 28 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.chinainsight.info/culture/community/72-events/288-c-y-lee-author-of-flower-drum-song-to-attend-opening-night-performance.html|title=C. Y. Lee, author of Flower Drum Song, to attend opening night performance - China Insight|website=www.chinainsight.info|accessdate=19 September 2017}} 5. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-cy-lee-20160131-38-story.html|title=Tales of a new Chinatown: The San Gabriel Valley stories from 'Flower Drum Song' author C.Y. Lee|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date= January 29, 2016|first=Daniela |last=Gerson|accessdate=2 February 2016}} 6. ^1 2 {{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/obituaries/cy-lee-dead.html|title=C.Y. Lee, ‘Flower Drum Song’ Author, Is Dead at 102|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|date=2019-02-11|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-02-12}} 7. ^1 {{Cite web|url=https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2664196|title=纪念｜黎锦扬：美国华人英文写作开拓者，好莱坞的打油郎|last=Ming|first=Fengying|date=2018-11-24|website=The Paper|access-date=2018-11-25}} 8. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1957/03/30/a-man-of-habit|title=A Man of Habit|first=C. Y.|last=Lee|date=23 March 1957|publisher=|accessdate=19 September 2017|via=www.newyorker.com}} 9. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1958/08/30/sawbwa-fang-and-the-communist|title=Sawbwa Fang And The Communist|first=C. Y.|last=Lee|date=23 August 1958|publisher=|accessdate=19 September 2017|via=www.newyorker.com}} 10. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1958/09/20/the-sawbwas-domestic-quarrel|title=The Sawbwa's Domestic Quarrel|first=C. Y.|last=Lee|date=13 September 1958|publisher=|accessdate=19 September 2017|via=www.newyorker.com}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1958/12/06/sawbwa-fangs-sense-of-justice|title=Sawbwa Fang's Sense of Justice|first=C. Y.|last=Lee|date=29 November 1958|publisher=|accessdate=19 September 2017|via=www.newyorker.com}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1958/12/20/sawbwa-fang-dr-streppone-and-the-leeches|title=Sawbwa Fang, Dr. Streppone, And The Leeches|first=C. Y.|last=Lee|date=13 December 1958|publisher=|accessdate=19 September 2017|via=www.newyorker.com}} 13. ^[https://www.theatermania.com/shows/los-angeles/mama-from-china_103317 Mama From China] External links
15 : 1915 births|2018 deaths|American centenarians|American dramatists and playwrights of Chinese descent|American journalists of Chinese descent|American people of Hunanese descent|American writers of Chinese descent|Chinese centenarians|Journalists from California|National Southwestern Associated University alumni|People from Xiangtan|People with acquired American citizenship|Pre-1949 Republic of China emigrants to the United States|Writers from Hunan|Yale School of Drama alumni |
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