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The Chinese American Experience: Papers from the Second ...
More editionsEarly efforts such as those of Walter N. Fong (1890's) and J. S. Tow (1923) were aimed at the American public, primarily to explain Chinese American society and to justify the Chinese presence in America. However, the growth of a more ...
Chinese America, History and Perspectives
More editionsBut now this new generation of American-born has developed an interest in Chinese American history and Chinese American society. They are not just looking across the river enjoying the fire, but wish to return to be active. Those who do all ...
Claiming Diaspora: Music, Transnationalism, and Cultural ...
Su ZhengThe political and economic forces from Chinese American society, American society, and the homelands combine to different degrees locally and transnationally in the production, distribution, consumption, and presentation of Chinese and ...
Negotiating Masculinity: Rereading Male Figures in Gish Jen, ...
Kai ZhangWhite society's stereotypes of emasculated Chinese American men are a consequence of the politically, historically, and culturally enforced "feminization" of Chinese American men in American society.
Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and ...
H. Mark LaiBut this act was also a symbolic, albeit belated, acknowledgment of the realities in the development of Chinese American society since the end of World War II. For many decades a heavy concentration on Chinese politics force-fed by ...
Asian American Athletes in Sport and Society
PreviewInterestingly enough, her effort to transform remained within the cultural boundaries of traditional Chinese American society. Her adherence to cultural expectations of femininity imposed by her mother suggests that traditional Chinese cultural ...
The Rocky Road to Liberty: A Documented History of Chinese ...
Chinese American Society22(1968). <7> Arnold J. Meagher, “The Introduction of Chinese Laborers to Latin America The “Coolie” Trade, 1847 - 1874” (Ph.D. diss., University of California at Davis, 1975), p. 142. <8> Meagher, “Introduction of Chinese Laborers,” pp.
Religion and Chinese Society
PreviewThese volumes contain a selection of twenty-one essays presented in a conference convened jointly by the Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient and the Centre for the Study of Religion and Chinese Society of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, ...
Multicultural Challenges and Redefining Identity in East Asia
Preview2 Chinese American Society maintains an excellent website, aptly named “The Rocky Road to Liberty: A Documented History of Chinese American Immigration and Exclusion,” providing primary sources related to the exclusion. Available at: ...
Holding Up More Than Half the Sky: Chinese Women Garment ...
Xiaolan BaoIn this pioneering study, Xiaolan Bao penetrates to the heart of Chinese-American society to explain how this militancy and organized protest, seemingly so at odds with traditional Chinese female behavior, came about.Bao conducted more than ...
Positioning the New: Chinese American Literature and the ...
PreviewIn the same vein, Bella Adams observes that “Orientalist ideology perpetrates a binary opposition between east and west. This same opposition is taken on board when counter-Orientalists, many of whom are Chinese or Chinese American, ...
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society: By the ...
Adeline Yen MahIn Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society, Adeline tells the story of Chinese Cinderella, a young girl who, after being thrown out of her home, has no choice but to go out and seek her own destiny.
Chinese American portraits: personal histories 1828-1988
Ruthanne Lum McCunnOffers profiles of individual Chinese-Americans, describes the prejudices they faced, and shares the experiences of Chinese pioneers
A Chinese anthology: a collection of Chinese folktales and ...
More editionsa collection of Chinese folktales and fables Raymond Van Over ... relationship to Chinese philosophy sec the / Ching, a new edition based on the James Legge translation, edited and arranged by Raymond Van Over (New American Library, ...
Law books, 1876-1981: books and serials on law and its ...
R.R. Bowker Company1892, 2158, 2981 American Society for Legal History. Northeastern States Branch. 2067 American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. 1897,2271, 2985,3081, 3252 American Society for Public Administration. 3070 American Society of ...
A String of Chinese Peach-Stones
William Arthur CornabyThis Victorian account of Chinese society and politics focuses particularly on the customs and rituals of rural life.
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History
Iris ChangInterweaving political, social, economic, and cultural history, as well as the stories of individuals, Chang offers a bracing view not only of what it means to be Chinese American, but also of what it is to be American.
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Constitution of the American Home Missionary Society: ...
American Home Missionary SocietyDonald Mcintosh, of Cadiz, Harrison County, Ohio, Resolved — That the recommendation of the Convention be adopted, and that the United Domestic Missionary Society now become the American Home Missionary Society, under the ...
Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and ...
Min ZhouA sociologist of international migration examines the Chinese American experience.
Chinese American Literature Since the 1850s
Xiao-huang Yin"What fascinates [about Tan's writing] is not only the insistent story telling, but the details of Chinese life and tradition," observes Nancy Forbes Romano.74 Unfortunately, she fails to understand that many aspects of Chinese life and tradition in ...
Movies and American Society
Steven J. RossThe second edition of Movies and American Society is a comprehensive collection of essays and primary documents that explore the ways in which movies have changed—and been changed by—American society from 1905 to the present.
American Doctors in Canton: Modernization in China, 1835-1935
Guangqiu Xu... Bamboo Stone: The Evolution ofa Chinese Medical Elite (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994). Michelle Campbell Renshaw, Accommodating the Chinese : The American Hospital in China, 1880-1920 (New York: Routledge, 2005).
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More editions... and of Boston's Keechong Society, led by legal and business historian Frederic Delano Grant, Jr.14 Chinese scholars took a particular interest in Mr. Grant's studies of lawsuits by nineteenth-century Chinese hong merchants in United States ...
Being Chinese, Becoming Chinese American
Shehong ChenOne of these citizens was Tom Wong Hoe Sing. A citizen of the United States and a resident of San Francisco, Tom Wong Hoe Sing was twenty-three years old and a waiter by occupation. He married Quan Shee, a Chinese woman, in China in ...
Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and ...
PreviewNicolai Volland Previous studies on the Chinese Internet have tended to focus on the potential of the electronic media to bring about political change, on the Chinese government«s efforts to stifle dissent and control the flows of information , ...
Amy Tan
Mark MussariPresents the life and career of the Chinese American writer, describing her childhood as the daughter of Chinese immigrants, the early success of her first novel, and the major themes and characters of her works.
Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture
More editionsSucheng Chan introduces this valuable new anthology with a commanding discussion of the field of Chinese American studies, in which she examines its history and points the way ahead.
Eating Bitter: A Chinese-American Saga
Maria TippettEating Bitter, a Chinese American Saga is a richly textured biography charting the long lives of Paul and Sonia Ho. It is about survival of the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese occupation of Taiwan, the Communist Revolution and the ...
Divine Justice: Religion And The Development Of Chinese ...
Paul R. Katzproduction staff at RefineCatch. Some of my initial results were published as chapters in the following books: John Lagerwey, ed., Religion and Chinese Society; DavidK.Jordan, Andrew D. Morris, and MarcL. Moskowitz, eds., TheMinorArts of ...
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