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1957 novel by C. Y. Lee

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Flower Drum Song (disambiguation).

The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C.

Y. Lee, first published in 1957. The novel tells the story of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, and was a bestseller in its time.

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It is the basis of 1958 musical Flower Drum Song, and later a movie of the same title was released in 1961, starring Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta.

Background

Author C. Y. Lee fled war-torn China in the 1940s and came to the United States, where he attended Yale University's playwriting program, graduating in 1947 with a Master of Fine Arts degree.

By the 1950s, he was barely making a living writing short stories and working as a Chinese teacher, translator and journalist for San FranciscoChinatown newspapers.^[1] He had hoped to break into playwriting, but instead wrote a novel about Chinatown, The Flower Drum Song (originally title