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Author | : Vanessa Künnemann |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3839431085 |
Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck's engagement with (neo-)missionary cultures in the United States and China was unique. Against the backdrop of her missionary upbringing, Buck developed a fictional project which both revised and reaffirmed American foreign missionary activity in the Pacific Rim during the 20th century. Vanessa Künnemann accurately traces this project from America's number one expert on China - as Buck came to be known - from a variety of disciplinary angles, placing her work squarely in Middlebrow Studies and New American Studies.
Author | : Shirley Mae Potts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 88 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Hilary Spurling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Authors, American |
ISBN | : |
Pearl Buck, one of the bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist, was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. This biography presents a portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Buck.
Author | : Reader's Digest Editors |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780895771964 |
Author | : Hilary Spurling |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2014-05-10 |
Genre | : Americans |
ISBN | : 9781441648952 |
The much honored biographer unearths the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Pearl Buck, whose novels captured ordinary life in China.
Author | : Jane H. Hong |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2019-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469653370 |
Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receives more immigrants from Asia than from anywhere else in the world. Yet questions of how that dramatic shift took place have long gone unanswered. In this first comprehensive history of Asian exclusion repeal, Jane H. Hong unearths the transpacific movement that successfully ended restrictions on Asian immigration. The mid-twentieth century repeal of Asian exclusion, Hong shows, was part of the price of America's postwar empire in Asia. The demands of U.S. empire-building during an era of decolonization created new opportunities for advocates from both the U.S. and Asia to lobby U.S. Congress for repeal. Drawing from sources in the United States, India, and the Philippines, Opening the Gates to Asia charts a movement more than twenty years in the making. Positioning repeal at the intersection of U.S. civil rights struggles and Asian decolonization, Hong raises thorny questions about the meanings of nation, independence, and citizenship on the global stage.
Author | : David A. Hollinger |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691192782 |
Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists. --
Author | : Soojin Chung |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2021-12-14 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 1479808849 |
"Adopting for God is the first historical study to focus on the role of adoption evangelists in the transnational adoption movement between the United States and East Asia. It shows how both evangelical and ecumenical Christians challenged Americans to redefine traditional familial values and rethink race matters"--
Author | : Sheng-mei Ma |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501352199 |
How do English-speaking novelists and filmmakers tell stories of China from a Chinese perspective? How do they keep up appearances of pseudo-Sino immanence while ventriloquizing solely in the English language? Anglo writers and their readers join in this century-old game of impersonating and dubbing Chinese. Throughout this wish fulfillment, writers lean on grammatical and conceptual frameworks of their mother tongue to represent an alien land and its yellowface aliens. Off-white or yellow-ish characters and their foreign-sounding speech are thus performed in Anglo-American fiction and visual culture; both yellowface and Chinglish are of, for, by the (white) people. Off-White interrogates seminal Anglo-American fiction and film on off-white bodies and voices. It commences with one Nobel laureate, Pearl Buck, and ends with another, Kazuo Ishiguro, almost a century later. The trajectory in between illustrates that the detective and mystery genres continue unabated their stock yellowface characters, who exude a magnetic field so powerful as to pull in Japanese anime. This universal drive to fashion a foil is ingrained in any will to power, so much so that even millennial China creates an off-yellow, darker-hued Orient in Huallywood films to silhouette its global ascent.
Author | : Christina Klein |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 2003-02-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520224698 |
This study reads the postwar period as one of international economic and political integration - a distinct chapter in the process of US-led globalization. It shows how US policy makers and intellectuals, created a global culture of integration that represented the growth of US power in Asia.