It may seem odd to have two American banjo players perform an ancient Chinese folk tune to welcome the new year, but once you hear it you're likely to be enchanted. This duo, Abigail Washburn and Bela ...

2002-12-31 04:00:00 PDT New York-- In the 1961 film musical "Flower Drum Song," the Chinese picture bride Mei Li and her father get their first dazzling glimpse of San Francisco from the portal of a ...

The writer C.Y. Lee, dapper at 99 with a leopard-skin printed handkerchief wrapped snugly around his neck, sits in his home office near Los Angeles’ Little Ethiopia happily holding court. Surrounding ...

If April showers bring May flowers, then now is the perfect time to refresh your playlists with a bouquet of songs about nature's prettiest, petaled plants. And luckily, flowers have served as ...

C.Y. Lee, a Chinese-born author whose best-selling 1957 novel “The Flower Drum Song” explored conflict among first- and second-generation immigrants in San Francisco’s Chinatown, provided the source ...

There are at least three versions of the musical “Flower Drum Song” in the world, and the main thing they have in common are the songs of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical was ...