The Flower Drum Song

This article is about the novel. For other uses, see Flower Drum Song (disambiguation).
First edition
(publ. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy)

The Flower Drum Song is a novel by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee, first published in 1957. The novel tells the story of Chinese immigrants in San Francisco, and was a bestseller in its time. It is the basis of 1958 musical Flower Drum Song, and later a movie of the same title was released in 1961, starring Nancy Kwan and James Shigeta.