書系名稱:East-West Cultural Encounters in Literature & Cultural StudiesTHE TAO OF S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei Ma examines the work of nineteenth-century “Sinophobic” American writers, such as Bret Harte, Jack London, and Frank Norris, and twentieth-century “Sinophiliac” authors, such as John Steinbeck and Philip K. Dick, as well as the movies Crazy Rich Asians and Disney’s Mulan and a host of contemporary Chinese authors, to illuminate how cultural stereotypes have swung from fearmongering to an overcompensating exultation of everything Asian. Within this framework Ma employs the Taoist principle of yin and yang to illuminate how roles of the once-dominant American hegemony—the yang—and the once-declining Asian civilization—the yin—are now, in the twenty-first century, turned upside down as China rises to writ
“Red and blue appear in stark contrast with one another on the map of America. But the even more profound divide is the alienation in our hearts.”This work is a striking analysis of the struggles face
從勞工到網路新貴,跨越150年華人史詩★本書榮獲《舊金山紀事報》(San Francisco Chronicle)評選為2004年年度好書 「內容豐富而鉅細靡遺。在類似的導論式書籍中,沒有任何一本書比得過這本層次分明且字裡行間充滿情感的《美國華人史》。」──耶魯大學歷史系榮譽教授史景遷(Jonathan D. Spence) 《美國華人史》是一個離散飄泊、橫跨一百五十年的史詩故事。每個年代都有
In an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day, Iris Chang tells of a people’s search for a better life—the determination of the Chinese to forge an identity and a destiny in a
Cassel (ethnic studies, California State U. at San Marcos) presents 24 essays that were selected from the Chinese Historical Society of San Diego and Baja California's Sixth Chinese American Conferenc
Introduces the history of Chinese Americans during the nineteenth century by allowing readers to choose between being a miner searching for gold, a worker looking for a job in San Francisco, or a labo
Written by specialists on the Chinese in Latin America and the Caribbean, this book tells the story of Asian migration to the Americas and contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the Chin