Chinatown FamilyLin Yutang (18951976), author of more than thirty five books, was arguably the most distinguished Chinese American writer of the twentieth century. In Chinatown Family, he brings humor and wisdom to issues of culture, race, and religion as he tells the engrossing and heart warming story of an immigrant, working class Chinese American family that settled in New York City during the 1930s and 1940s. Tracing their sometimes troubled and sometimes