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Author Henry
Chang will read
from his
acclaimed novels
CHINATOWN BEAT
and YEAR OF THE
DOG and will
discuss the
origins and
methodology of
his writing
style, evoking
Chinatown not
only as setting
but also as a
character. He
will explain how
he has combined
noir mystery
with Chinese
American
sociology and
history.
Chinatown
Beat -
Chinese-American
NYPD Detective
Jack Yu has
transferred back
to his old
neighborhood,
Chinatown, to be
closer to his
ailing Pa. He
encounters
boyhood friends
who have become
hardened
gangsters, and
is haunted by
the murder of a
former teenage
blood brother.
After his
father’s
untimely death,
Jack
investigates the
murder of
Chinatown tong
boss Uncle Four,
an investigation
that drives Jack
into the depths
of the Chinatown
underbelly.
Year of the
Dog - He’s
been transferred
to a different
precinct, but
Detective Jack
Yu cannot get
away from
Chinatown’s
criminals – his
old friends –
who have hooked
up with the Hong
Kong based
triads in an
elaborate
nationwide
credit card
fraud, nor from
the Chinese
victims whose
stories cry out
for justice,
like the teenage
Chinese take-out
delivery boy
brutally
murdered in the
projects.
URL:
www.chinatowntrilogy.com
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