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By narrating real family histories, the study highlights Chong’s admiration and pride toward earlier generations and examines Chinatown as a historical enclave and spiritual home. Focusing on metaphorical figures—Utopia, transplanted tree, and invisible dome—it clarifies Chinatown’s layered meanings and reveals the courage, tolerance, and persistence of Chinese immigrants.","A Study on the Metaphors of Chinatown in The Concubine’s Children  \nWang Fafa  \nInner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010000, China  \nAbstract: The literary background of Denise Chong’s novel The Concubine’s Children mainly sets in Chinatowns in Canada, where Chinese immigrants struggled for a living, strived for their dreams, and preserved their “portable root”, in second half of the nineteenth century. By narrating the real family stories and representing living conditions of her former generations in Chinatown, Denise Chong expressed her admiration and pride to them, and even stood in awe of them. Chinatown in Canada, once was the enclave for the early Chinese-Canadians who were isolatedfrom the social mainstream, political and cultural life. It is not only a witness of the history of Chinese-Canadians and a spiritual home, but also a muse who gives inspiration to the creation of Canadian-Chinese literature. By analyzing the metaphorical figures of Chinatown--Utopia, transplanted tree, and invisible dome, the essay probes into the implications and significance of Chinatown, its multifaceted images being unveiled. Meanwhile, courage, tolerance and persistence in Chinese immigrants are revealed.  \nKeywords: Metaphor, The Concubine’s Children, Chinatown, Denise Chong  \n1. Introduction  \nThe third-generation Chinese-Canadian writer, Denise Chong (1953-) has drawn increasing attention since the publication of her first non-fiction novel The Concubine’s Children: The Story of a Family Living on Two Sides of the Goble (1994), which won various awards including the Governor General’s Literary Nomination Award, Vancouver Book Award etc. After that, by virtue of the following works, such as The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women (1997), The Girl in the Picture (1999), and Lives of the Family: Stories of Fate and Circumstance (2013), she established her prestige for her emphasis on the voices of women, as well as her particular brand of nationalism. All of Chong’s books“evoke such ‘everyday happenings and relationships’ amidst the extraordinary circumstances of war, communism, immigration, and racism”. [6] The Concubine’s Children is unparalleled by others by in its depiction of the history of Chinese immigrants in Canada and the manifold roles of Chinatown. Amidst the extraordinary circumstances of war, communism, immigration and racism, this family saga narrates the tale of three generations in Chinatown. The Concubine’s Children tells the story of her grandparents——Chan Sam and May-ying (she is the concubine of Chan Sam)——who left their homeland in search of wealth in Vancouver’s early Chinatown. Chan Sam worked as coolie, May-ying teahouse waitress. They both sacrificed and broke their backs for their family, persistently pursuing a whole family and providing a better life for their descendants. Eventually, May-ying slid into a life of alcohol and became a single mother whose strict yet negligent ways were used to raise Denise’s mother, Hing, in Canada. While confronted poverty, racism, and the terrible family, Hing strived to improve herself and became self-dependent.  \nDenise Chong aims to retrieve her family story, as well as the story of Chinese community in Chinatown.“Chong’s approach to recovering Chinese Canadian experience has been widely praised by nationalist criticism”. [7] . Through her narrations based on Chinatown, Denise Chong has explored the roots of Chinese culture, completed her spiritual return and reconstructed the history of the Chinese Canadians.“In reality, the urgency is more pressing because Chong observes that the historical evidence about her grandparent’s generation is disappearing fast from the communities in both Canada and China”.  \n[3] Chinatown contains a part of collective history of the sojourner generation of earlier Chinese immigrants. And Canada is one of the countries which has the earliest and the biggest number of Chinese immigrants. 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