Forbidden City USA Book Report

During the first class of second week, we are recommended to attend for a book talk called Forbidden City, USA. It is a name for a nightclub, which located in the Chinatown, San Francisco. Arthur Dong, the author of the book attended this book talk to present his discoveries after immersing himself in collecting hundreds of evidences (images and objects) of that era over these thirty years. Forbidden City, USA captures various personal stories from the entertainers who worked in the nightclubs. Their experiences and aspirations are truly worth to be recorded and published as a book; it is priceless. Not surprisingly, people who came to this talk was mostly the older generations, they might come from the same era and are interested to know more stories that they did not go through, just like what I have thought. Before the talk, I have never been introduced any cultures about the Chinatown nightclubs, even though I am a Chinese. Thus, I am glad that I made a decision to come over with my study partner and got the chance to explore more Chinese cultures and their journey. I was surprised by the content covered in this book because Chinese women are supposed to be more conservative in the past. According to Chinese tradition, their
Although the job is difficult to be accepted by the standard of most Chinese parents, they could not deny that it is a high-income job in that era. It played an important role in enriching the cultures of Chinatown nightclubs. For instance, Dong displayed out the pictures of Jadin Wong -a famous dancer - during his talk, one of the pictures showed that she was naked with wearing a Chinese headdress. I was so impressed by her sassy and daring. It also showed that people in that era were open-minded, they wanted to have a change of mind and a change of attitude on their