Wearing a baseball uniform, Wang San sings his version of "The Other Generation" to two smaller oriental girls. Master Wang's youngest son, Wang San, is entirely Americanized. These two elderly Orientals sing "The Other Generation," a song about the gulf between first generation Chinese immigrants and their offspring. Master Wang is very traditional and has been vainly attempting to keep two sons from being seduced by the American life-style. When Madam Liang presents Mei Li's photograph to Master Wang, he is delighted with the girl. Sammy tells Madam Liang about Mei Li and asks her to show the girl's photograph to her brother-in-law, which she agrees to do. He is Americanized enough to want to choose his own wife, which is a break with his Chinese heritage. Later, Wang Ta describes himself as half American, half Chinese. The following day Sammy visits Madam Liang, the sister-in-law of Master Wang, who wants a traditional bride for his son, Wang Ta. If Linda will understand, he promises to buy her a new convertible. Sammy goes after her and promises Linda he'll unload the Chinese bride the next day. Linda, Sammy's long-time girlfriend, comes into the room just in time to overhear this question. Li asks Sammy if he intends to honor his marriage proposal. Mei Li likes American cooking, but Sammy is insulted he contends his club serves the best Chinese cooking in the bay area. In the club's kitchen, Sammy feeds the starving immigrants. Sammy's mother is insisting on his union with a traditional Chinese girl in an arranged marriage. When this totally assimilated hipster arrives, he tells the officer that these are the folks he has been looking for and recognizes a photo of Mei Li that his mother had shown him. Linda Low and several Celestial Gardens chorus girls perform "Fan Tan Fannie" as the floorshow. After explaining that they are looking for the address of Sammy Fong, the policeman escorts them to Sammy's nightclub, the Celestial Gardens. The gathered crowd rewards their performance with money, but as they are collecting it a policeman asks if they have a license. During this rendition, she sings about the miracle of changing weather. She will sing a song with the flower drum: "A Hundred Million Miracles." The lyrics sing about miracles occurring every day. The newly arrived illegal immigrants have no money, so Mei Li proposes that she and her father give a show. Even though most of the people in the park are Orientals, none of them can read Chinese. They wander into a park, where they ask several people for help to find the address of Madam Fong who has chosen Mei Li as the bride for her son, Sammy. Later after the cargo has been unloaded onto the dock, Mei Li and her father climb out of their crates and wander the streets of San Francisco Mei Li thinks it is a wonderful city and must be a holy place since its named for a saint. They have stowed away in crates in the cargo hold of the ship. Han Li, peer out a porthole in the ship as they sail into San Francisco harbor. When the action begins a young Chinese girl, Mei Li, and her father, Dr. During the potpourri overture and opening credits, oriental figures portray a journey from Hong Kong to San Francisco aboard a cargo ship.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
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