Disappearing Moon Cafe Timeline vs Plotline

TIMELINE

1892 Prologue--Searches for the Bones  

 1986 Waiting for Enlightenment

1924 Ties Overseas--A Ticket In 

1925 Triangles 

1986 Ties to the Land--A Ticket Out?  

1968 Identity Crisis  

1986 The Writer  

1951 The Suicide 

1939 Epilogue--New Moon 

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PLOT LINE

1892: Where Gwei Chang meets Kelora Chen; the retrieval of bones  

1924: Mui Lan against Fong Mei, as well as Janet Smith and the JS Bill

1926: Keeman and Beatrice mentioned

1932: The departure of Ting An

1938: This is when Beatrice is sent to Hong Kong

1939: Gwei Chang dreams of his reunion with Lee Chong

1942: The death of Ting An

1949: Morgan gets to know Sue

1950: Sue talks about her pregnancy with her sister

1951: Sue dies while giving birth to Kae

1962: The death of Fong Mei

1971: "Legitimate, traditional, conventional" family ties are requested by Kae upon meeting Hermia in Peking. 

1986: Kae Ying gives birth 

1987: A telegram is sent to Kae Ying

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REFERENCES

David. N. Rodowick, "Madness, Authority and Ideology: The Domestic Melodrama of the 1950s."? 
           Home is Where the Heart Is. Ed. Christine Gledhill. 273.

Thomas Elsaesser, "Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Drama."? Home is 

           Where the Heart Is. Ed. Christine Gledhill. 

 <http://www.eng.fju.edu.tw/worldlit/paper/chinese_canadian_identity.html >