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Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 Free FREE CONTEMPORARY CHINESE: CHARACTER BOOK BK. 1 PDF Wu Zhongwei | 148 pages | 01 Jan 2008 | Sinolingua | 9787800528811 | English, Chinese | Beijing, China Free Chinese Worksheets Download: PDF Format and Printable Goodreads helps you keep track of Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving devoted regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional smiles simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of bustling restaurant life. Owner Jimmy Han has ambitions for a new high-end fusion place, hoping to eclipse his late father's homely establishment. Jimmy's older brother, Johnny The popular Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland has been serving Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 regulars for decades, but behind the staff's professional Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 simmer tensions, heartaches and grudges from decades of bustling restaurant life. Jimmy's older brother, Johnny, is more concerned with restoring the dignity of the family name than his faltering relationship with his own teenage daughter, Annie. Nan and Ah-Jack, longtime Duck House employees, yearn to turn their thirty-year friendship into something more, while Nan's son, Pat, struggles to stay out of trouble. When disaster strikes and Pat and Annie find themselves in a dangerous game that means tragedy for the Duck House, their families must finally confront the conflicts and loyalties simmering beneath the red and gold lanterns. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. More Details Original Title. Rockville, Maryland United States. Women's Prize for Fiction Nominee for Longlist Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Number One Chinese Restaurant Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1, please sign up. Not a? Henry Holt Thanks for letting us know. We'll get that updated. See 1 question about Number One Chinese Restaurant…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of Number One Chinese Restaurant. May 08, Larry H rated Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 liked it Shelves: netgalley. Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs in the mids, my family ate dinner out nearly every Sunday evening, and more often than not, we ate Chinese food, as did many other families in my town. I used to joke that there were classmates I saw more regularly at the Chinese restaurant than I did in high school! While there were several different Chinese restaurants in our area, and everyone had a favorite, we frequently ate at one particular restaurant, whose owners my parents had known for a num Growing up in the New Jersey suburbs in the mids, my family ate dinner out nearly every Sunday evening, and more often than not, we ate Chinese food, as did many other families in my town. While there were several different Chinese restaurants in our area, and everyone had a favorite, we frequently ate at one particular restaurant, whose owners my parents had known for a number of years. The owner and his wife seemed to have a fascinating relationship, and the high school gossip I was then loved to make up stories about what was going on in their lives, as well as the lives of the other employees. The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1, has certainly seen better days, Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 it's still a favorite among the community's restaurants. The creation of immigrant Bobby Han, the Duck House was once a place where presidents and celebrities dined, but Bobby's death left the restaurant caught between his two sons, the more managerially suited Johnny, and Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 more impulsive, ambitious Jimmy. Jimmy has dreams of getting away from his father's legacy and opening a fancier Asian fusion restaurant where he'd never again have to serve the dishes which exhaust and repulse him. But to make his dream possible requires striking a deal with the devil, one who has been on the outskirts of their family for years now, and doesn't know how to take the word "no" for an answer. When tragedy strikes, it may make the achievement of Jimmy's dreams closer to reality, but it also upends the lives of many others. But if they do, how will this affect Ah-Jack's wife and Nan's rebellious teenage son, Pat? Pat, a dishwasher at the Duck House since Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 expelled from high school, is in the midst of a flirtation with Annie, the hostess, who happens to be Jimmy's niece. While Annie has very little love for her father or her family's restaurant, she's not expecting to get pulled into a scheme which threatens to destroy both. As Jimmy tries to hold on to his dream, he must battle his brother, their seemingly ineffective mother, and the family friend whose menacing presence has always kept everyone on edge. But what does Jimmy really want? Is it making a name for himself, or continuing to bask in the spotlight his father built all these years ago. There's a lot going on in this book, with no shortage of melodrama, family dysfunction, angst, and even a little crime for good measure. While the different situations the characters find themselves in certainly have potential, they never really grabbed my interest as I had hoped. I don't know if there was too much to digest no pun intended all at once, or if it was more that the characters weren't particularly sympathetic, but I felt that the plot really dragged, and never picked up much steam. If you like stories of family dynamics, you might enjoy this one. The one thing I truly appreciated about this book is that Li didn't spend too much time dwelling on the food, so I didn't get as hungry as I often do when reading books about restaurants and cooks! Thanks for making this available! See all of my reviews at itseithersadnessoreuphoria. View all 15 comments. Apr 05, Rachel rated it it was ok Shelves: literary-fiction, women-s-prize Everything about Number One Chinese Restaurant is just aggressively mediocre. Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 say 'aggressively' because you're confronted with this mediocrity on practically every page; the prose is simultaneously lifeless and overwritten, the characters are poorly drawn caricatures, Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 plot meanders, and this book just never manages to hit any of the emotional beats that it strives for. It's basically an emotionally hollow melodrama. Not to fully absolve Lillian Li of all of these issues, but I do believe t Everything about Number One Chinese Restaurant is just aggressively mediocre. Not to fully absolve Lillian Li of all of these issues, but I do believe that a lot of this could have been solved with tighter editing. Because what works about this book are its bare bones: a dysfunctional Chinese-American family struggles to run a Chinese restaurant, with inter- generational tension providing the main conflict: how Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 one balance a family legacy with their own plans for the future? It's a great concept, and I wanted to root for this book; I wanted to root for the Han family, but it all just fails in execution. Certain plot threads are examined and re-examined through different perspectives ad nauseum; others are abandoned after a brief mention. This book is over-saturated with details, but it doesn't pause to imbue key moments with any kind of emotional weight. When Jimmy Han's family's restaurant is set on fire, we learn the particulars of the fire-setting from about four different perspectives, but what about the aftermath? Jimmy, relying on insurance money to come through, quickly starts a new restaurant and hires staff and creates a new menu and this all happens off the page, we get from point A to point B so easily that it's a wonder we should care at all, with characters overcoming obstacles this easily. This could have been good but it just wasn't. I'd gladly read more from Lillian Li in the future, as this was a debut and it wasn't so abysmal that I'll completely write off her potential, but as a Women's Prize read it sadly felt Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 a waste of time. View all 24 comments. Mar 07, Meike rated it liked it Shelves: chinaread. Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction Many immigrants become entrepreneurs or workers in the Contemporary Chinese: Character Book Bk. 1 industry, and this book contemplates what this version of the "American Dream" can mean: Li's debut centers on the brothers Jimmy and Johnny, the sons of Chinese immigrants, who, after the death of their father, inherit his Chinese restaurant and have very different ideas regarding the future of their business. The decisions they take do not only have consequences for themselves, but al Nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction Many immigrants become entrepreneurs or workers in the service industry, and this book contemplates what this version of the "American Dream" can mean: Li's debut centers on the brothers Jimmy and Johnny, the sons of Chinese immigrants, who, after the death of their father, inherit his Chinese restaurant and have very different ideas regarding the future of their business.
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