Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle.
Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12,500 POW and 70,000 Asian lives. Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life.
Автор: Christiansen Название: Chinatown, Europe ISBN: 0415865182 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415865180 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Based on in-depth interviews with overseas Chinese in many European cities, Chinatown, Europe provides a complex yet enthralling investigation into many Chinese communities in Europe.
Автор: Christiansen, Flemming Название: Chinatown, Europe ISBN: 0700710728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700710720 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: M. Laguerre Название: The Global Ethnopolis ISBN: 0333777891 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333777893 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 144410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book focuses on three ethnic neighbourhoods in San Francisco: commoditized Chinatown, gentrified Japantown, and defunct Manilatown, and argues that the city is global because it comprises a multiplicity of global niches in its midst that interface with and sustain each other at the local level.
Автор: Jeffrey F. L. Partridge Название: Beyond Literary Chinatown ISBN: 0295997265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295997261 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 91080.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Автор: Philippa Gates Название: Criminalization/Assimilation: Chinese/Americans and Chinatowns in Classical Hollywood Film ISBN: 0813589428 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813589428 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 125400.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Criminalization/Assimilation traces how Classical Hollywood films constructed America's image of Chinese Americans from their criminalization as unwanted immigrants to their eventual acceptance when assimilated citizens, exploiting both America's yellow peril fears about Chinese immigration and its fascination with Chinatowns. Philippa Gates examines Hollywood's responses to social issues in Chinatown communities, primarily immigration, racism, drug trafficking, and prostitution, as well as the impact of industry factors including the Production Code and star system on the treatment of those subjects. Looking at over 200 films, Gates reveals the variety of racial representations within American film in the first half of the twentieth century and brings to light not only lost and forgotten films but also the contributions of Asian American actors whose presence onscreen offered important alternatives to Hollywood's yellowface fabrications of Chinese identity and a resistance to Hollywood's Orientalist narratives.
Автор: Noonan Ellen Название: The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America S Most Famous Opera ISBN: 1469617536 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469617534 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 36030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its debut in 1935. In this comprehensive account, Ellen Noonan examines the opera`s long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of twentieth-century American expectations about race, culture, and the struggle for equality.
Автор: Rescigno Joseph Название: Conducting Opera: Where Theater Meets Music ISBN: 1574417932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781574417937 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 28650.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Discusses operas in the standard repertory from the perspective of a conductor with a lifetime of experience performing them. The book focuses on Joseph Rescigno`s approach to performing these masterworks in order to realize what opera can uniquely achieve: a fusion of music and drama resulting in a whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Автор: Johnson, Eugene J. (williams College, Massachusetts) Название: Inventing the opera house ISBN: 1108421741 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108421744 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 54910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book about the invention of the opera house, a building type of world-wide importance, treats its subject in interdisciplinary ways that involve music, art, theater, politics, and renaissance studies. Its careful scholarship is for specialists, while its clear, lively prose is for general readers. It is the only work in English on the subject.
Автор: Mielusel Ramona, Pruteanu Simona Emilia Название: Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America: Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration ISBN: 3030301605 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030301606 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 111790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Chapter 1: Introduction: The Realities of Multicultural SocietiesRamona Mielusel and Simona Pruteanu Part I - Citizenship and Integration: Espousing or Combating Official Political Discourses on Multiculturalism and National Identity Chapter 2: Nationalistic Secularism and the Critique of Canadian Multiculturalism in QuebecDavid Koussens Chapter 3: Francophones, Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Canada, Quйbec and EuropePatrick Imbert Chapter 4: The Regulation of Migration, Integration, and Multiculturalism in 21st century FranceMichael Samers Chapter 5: Representing French Citizenship and Belonging in La Desintйgration (2011) by Philippe FauconRamona Mielusel Part II - How Can One Be Muslim, Immigrant and French? Literary and Cinematic Expressions of Belonging in France and Quйbec Chapter 6: Redefining Frenchness: Thomtй Ryam's Banlieue Noire and En attendant que le bus exploseRebecca Blanchard Chapter 7: The Integration of Muslim Maghrebis into Quebec: France as the Model not to FollowTyphaine Leservot Chapter 8: Feminist Citizenship in the Banlieue: Houda Benyamina's Divines (2016)Michela Ardizzoni Chapter 9: "Let me explain: This is who I am" Interview with Anita Aloisio with Introduction by Dervila CookeDervila Cooke Part III - Framing identity and nationality: Crimmigration, Islamophobia and the Politics of Ethnic Exclusion- Chapter 10: Shy Elitism: A New Keyword in Critical Multiculturalism StudiesDaniel McNeil Chapter 11: On the Islamophobic Mind and its Agenda in FranceAbderrahman Beggar Chapter 12: Framing the Immigration Discourse and Drawing the Citizen: Concrete Representations of the "Migration Crisis" in Comics JournalismSimona Emilia Pruteanu Chapter 13: Navigating Diversity: Multiculturalism as a Heuristic
Автор: Andrew N. Wegmann, Robert Englebert Название: French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, 1600–1875 ISBN: 0807178187 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807178188 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: French Connections examines how the movement of people, ideas, and social practices contributed to the complex processes and negotiations involved in being and becoming French in North America and the Atlantic World between the years 1600 and 1875. Engaging a wide range of topics, from religious and diplomatic performance to labor migration, racialization, and both imagined and real conceptualizations of "Frenchness" and "Frenchification," this volume argues that cultural mobility was fundamental to the development of French colonial societies and the collective identities they housed. Cases of cultural formation and dislocation in places as diverse as Quebec, the Illinois Country, Detroit, Haiti, Acadia, New England, and France itself demonstrate the broad variability of French cultural mobility that took place throughout this massive geographical space. Nevertheless, these communities shared the same cultural root in the midst of socially and politically fluid landscapes, where cultural mobility came to define, and indeed sustain, communal and individual identities in French North America and the Atlantic World. Drawing on innovative new scholarship on Louisiana and New Orleans, the editors and contributors to French Connections look to refocus the conversation surrounding French colonial interconnectivity by thinking about mobility as a constitutive condition of culture; from this perspective, separate "spheres" of French colonial culture merge to reveal a broader, more cohesive cultural world. The comprehensive scope of this collection will attract scholars of French North America, early American history, Atlantic World history, Caribbean studies, Canadian studies, and frontier studies. With essays from established, award-winning scholars such as Brett Rushforth, Leslie Choquette, Jay Gitlin, and Christopher Hodson as well as from new, progressive thinkers such as Mairi Cowan, William Brown, Karen L. Marrero, and Robert D. Taber, French Connections promises to generate interest and value across an extensive and diverse range of concentrations.
Автор: Korman Gerd Название: This Was America, 1865-1965: Unequal Citizens in the Segregated Republic ISBN: 1644696371 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644696378 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 124570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: By examining Jewish experiences between the American Civil War and the African American Civil Rights Revolution, this book focuses on citizens who usually spent their daily lives in black and white "peoplehoods."
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