Chinese American Voices
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Author | : Judy Yung |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520243099 |
Offering a textured history of the Chinese in America since their arrival during the California Gold Rush, this work includes letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs. It provides an insight into immigration, work, family and social life, and the longstanding fight for equality and inclusion.
Author | : Laurence Yep |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780606084604 |
The dragon, a symbol of Asian art and mythology, appears in many guises and is always adaptable -- a survivor par excellence. Asian Americans display this same supple strength as they move between their Asian culture and their American one. In American Dragons, Laurence Yep brings together twenty-five talented writers, each with a different story about the Asian American experience: - A Chinese American girl struggles to find her place in a suburban high school without denying her true intelligence. - A young woman is torn when her romantic feelings clash with the expectations of her Vietnamese parents. - A twenty-first-century teenager and his aging grandfather learn that it is possible to live in the future without losing touch with the past.
Author | : Judy Yung |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 566 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520922877 |
Unbound Voices brings together the voices of Chinese American women in a fascinating, intimate collection of documents—letters, essays, poems, autobiographies, speeches, testimonials, and oral histories—detailing half a century of their lives in America. Together, these sources provide a captivating mosaic of Chinese women's experiences in their own words, as they tell of making a home for themselves and their families in San Francisco from the Gold Rush years through World War II. The personal nature of these documents makes for compelling reading. We hear the voices of prostitutes and domestic slavegirls, immigrant wives of merchants, Christians and pagans, homemakers, and social activists alike. We read the stories of daughters who confronted cultural conflicts and racial discrimination; the myriad ways women coped with the Great Depression; and personal contributions to the causes of women's emancipation, Chinese nationalism, workers' rights, and World War II. The symphony of voices presented here lends immediacy and authenticity to our understanding of the Chinese American women's lives. This rich collection of women's stories also serves to demonstrate collective change over time as well as to highlight individual struggles for survival and advancement in both private and public spheres. An educational tool on researching and reclaiming women's history, Unbound Voices offers us a valuable lesson on how one group of women overcame the legacy of bound feet and bound lives in America. The selections are accompanied by photographs, with extensive introductions and annotation by Judy Yung, a noted authority on primary resources relating to the history of Chinese American women.
Author | : Arar Han |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2010-02-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0472026046 |
"This diverse collection, like Asian America itself, adds up to something far more vibrant than the sum of its voices." -Eric Liu, author of The Accidental Asian "There's fury, dignity, and self-awareness in these essays. I found the voices to be energetic and the ideas exciting." -Diana Son, playwright (Stop Kiss) and co-producer (Law & Order: Criminal Intent) This refreshing and timely collection of coming-of-age essays, edited and written by young Asian Americans, powerfully captures the joys and struggles of their evolving identities as one of the fastest-growing groups in the nation and poignantly depicts the many oft-conflicting ties they feel to both American and Asian cultures. The essays also highlight the vast cultural diversity within the category of Asian American, yet ultimately reveal how these young people are truly American in their ideals and dreams. Asian American X is more than a book on identity; it is required reading both for young Asian Americans who seek to understand themselves and their social group, and for all who are interested in keeping abreast of the changing American social terrain.
Author | : Laurence Yep |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1993-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780780470644 |
Author | : Laurence Yep |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1995-09-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0064406032 |
Includes short stories, poems, and excerpts from plays that relate what it is like growing up Asian American.
Author | : Jean Lau Chin |
Publisher | : Teachers College Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780807745519 |
A compelling saga of mothers and daughters, survival and striving, women, family, and culture that will resonate with all Americans who have immigrant roots. This fascinating book takes a new and different look at the immigrant experience of Asian Americans. Through the voice of her Chinese mother, the author examines perennial themes of separation, loss, guilt, and bicultural identity in the lives of immigrant families. Grounded in a historical context that spans events of more than a century, World War II, McCarthyism, Civil Rights, the Women's movement, this volume: Uses oral history to show how families rely upon myth and legend as they adjust to a new culture. Illustrates how strong cultural and intergenerational bonds can both support and oppress Chinese American families; Uses Asian mythology and symbols to understand the psyche of Chinese Americans and their immigration experience, illustrating the contrasting world views of Asian and Western culture. Provides strategies for coping with the immigration experience for use by counselors and other professionals.
Author | : Joshua A. Fogel |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231551258 |
China’s increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country’s newfound influence and power? Voices from the Chinese Century brings together a selection of essays from representative leading thinkers that open a window into public debate in China today on fundamental questions of China and the world—past, present, and future. The voices in this volume include figures from each of China’s main intellectual clusters: liberals, the New Left, and New Confucians. In genres from scholarly analyses to social media posts, often using Party-approved language that hides indirect criticism, these essayists offer a wide range of perspectives on how to understand China’s history and its place in the twenty-first-century world. They explore questions such as the relationship of political and economic reforms; the distinctiveness of China’s history and what to take from its traditions; what can or should be learned from the West; and how China fits into today’s eruption of populist anger and challenges to the global order. The fifteen original translations in this volume not only offer insight into contemporary China but also prompt us to ask what Chinese intellectuals might have to teach Europe and North America about the world’s most pressing problems.
Author | : Icy Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This book looks at the impact of the terrorist attacks of September 11 on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, profiles Asian American survivors and victims and includes the perceptions of community leaders, artists, and children.
Author | : Victoria Chang |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780252071744 |
A modern poetry anthology that includes the work of a second generation of Asian American poets who are taking the best of the prior generation, but also breaking conventional patterns.