Guangzhou Dept: Father speaks English a little better than her husband, but just a little. Their jobs separate this family even further: Father works in Chinatown, moving boxes, while Mother chops the heads off fish in a factory. Raymond is an actor, struggling of course, a concern to both his parents. They're still very Chinese, while he’s very Canadian – so Canadian, his mother remarks, that he’s moving to the United States. Pu Erh , Guangzhou born, East Vancouver raised Norman Yeung's first full length play, is about a Chinese Canadian family dealing with a generation gap exacerbated by a linguistic chasm. Their 25 year old son Raymond Jeff Yung , on the other hand, speaks English perfectly, but struggles to get more than a word or two out in Cantonese. As
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