This novel relates stories of new Chinese immigrants living in New York, United States. After China adopted the policy of reform and opened up to the outside world in the early 1980s, large numbers of Chinese went abroad and settled in the United States, a paradise they had dreamed of to go to. Chinatown was chosen by most of these new immigrants as their settlement, where they live and work. Chinatown is a place in the high and low were mixed together. The underworld stops at no evil nothing. They carry on extortions and organize the criminal activity of illegal immigration and brutal and bloody fights and killings between factions. The novel tells several new immigrant families, each of them has different experience in China’s mainland; after coming to U.S.A., in order to realize that “American Dream”, many of them worked hard day and night, full of entrepreneurial spirit and some started their own business from scratch. They want to train their children to become a useful person, enduring all kinds of hardships, place hopes on them. But in fact, some children did not take their study seriously, and some even went so far as to sink into degradation or even crimes. Thus, “the American dream” of some new immigrants shattered into pieces. A family of Wang Ming’s is an example among them. Father’s soul is hurt. Son’s body is injured, so they have to get back to the hometown to cure their suffering. This novel has stories that are vividly depicted, intricately plotted, and sometimes breathtaking.