Bushwick
Photo by Craig Blankenhorn courtesy HBO
Liang is a Chinese American who is seeing success melding traditional Chinese music with modern beats, to the consternation of his father who makes ends meet by finding cans to recycle in the city’s garbage and playing the erhu in the subway. Liang actaully got his musical start as a child playing violin in the subway, with his father looking on.
The episode shows the challenges between first and second generation Chinese in America. Liang is embarrassed by some of his dad’s lack of etiquette, his father doesn’t want to visit him in Berlin because he says the plane tickets are too expensive. In the scene above, we see Liang’s parents on the streets of Bushwick on Manhattan Avenue after recycling the cans they’ve collected.
