SOURCE: Rothman, Nathan L. “Martian Among Us.” Saturday Review of Literature 31, no. 41 (9 October 1948): 38.

In the following review, Rothman finds Chinatown Family to be a good description of the experience of a Chinese immigrant family in New York City.

The life and hard times of a Chinese family in New York City would seem, in prospect, to be one more panel in the larger picture of immigrant struggle. The Czechs, the Swedes, the Jews, the Irish, and the Poles came in diverse ways to describe a series of homogeneous patterns on their way upward, into social solvency. But not so the Chinese.

The difference, very nicely illustrated in this novel [Chinatown Family], is one of equipment. They brought more of cultural ballast with them than any of the other peoples, and they regarded with wider and calmer eyes the gaucheries of a civilization younger than their own. More than...