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Author : Mario Gandelsonas
Release : 2002
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 264/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shanghai Reflections by : Mario Gandelsonas
Download or read book Shanghai Reflections written by Mario Gandelsonas. This book was released on 2002. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student projects sponsored by Princeton, Hong Kong, and Tongji universities and reviewed by critics.
Author : Ron Chew
Release : 1994
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans by : Ron Chew
Download or read book Reflections of Seattle's Chinese Americans written by Ron Chew. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through 71 intimate stories and portraits, elders in Seattle's Chinese American community share, for the first time, their personal memories, both sweet and bitter. In their own voices, they describe their early life in Chinese villages, their passage to America and Seattle's Chinatown. They share their experiences working in laundries, restaurants and canneries. They tell of the climate of racial discrimination, the era of World War II and the community that emerged after the war." "These stories are supplemented by an original historical essay on Seattle's Chinese American community by Doug Chin. The essay provides a window for understanding the struggles and achievements of Chinese Americans during the period from 1860 to the 1960s, the landmark first 100 years."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Leo Ou-fan Lee
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 507/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shanghai Modern by : Leo Ou-fan Lee
Download or read book Shanghai Modern written by Leo Ou-fan Lee. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of China's wild rush to modernize, a surprising note of reality arises: Shanghai, it seems, was once modern indeed, a pulsing center of commerce and art in the heart of the twentieth century. This book immerses us in the golden age of Shanghai urban culture, a modernity at once intrinsically Chinese and profoundly anomalous, blending new and indigenous ideas with those flooding into this "treaty port" from the Western world. A preeminent specialist in Chinese studies, Leo Ou-fan Lee gives us a rare wide-angle view of Shanghai culture in the making. He shows us the architecture and urban spaces in which the new commercial culture flourished, then guides us through the publishing and filmmaking industries that nurtured a whole generation of artists and established a bold new style in urban life known as modeng. In the work of six writers of the time, particularly Shi Zhecun, Mu Shiying, and Eileen Chang, Lee discloses the reflection of Shanghai's urban landscape--foreign and familiar, oppressive and seductive, traditional and innovative. This work acquires a broader historical and cosmopolitan context with a look at the cultural links between Shanghai and Hong Kong, a virtual genealogy of Chinese modernity from the 1930s to the present day.
Author : Cao Jinqing
Release : 2004-12-10
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis China Along the Yellow River by : Cao Jinqing
Download or read book China Along the Yellow River written by Cao Jinqing. This book was released on 2004-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest portraits of the Chinese countryside published in the reform era', it charts a long journey through the hinterland region of the Yellow River undertaken by the author between 1994 and 1996. It examines in exhaustive detail the lives and work of peasants, Party and local government officials, providing a wealth of data on the nature of life in post-reform rural China. The author argues that global integration is but the latest 'great leap forward' in a succession of reforms over a hundred years.
Author : Cheng Nien
Release : 2010-12-14
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 167/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Life and Death in Shanghai by : Cheng Nien
Download or read book Life and Death in Shanghai written by Cheng Nien. This book was released on 2010-12-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman who spent more than six years in solitary confinement during Communist China's Cultural Revolution discusses her time in prison. Reissue. A New York Times Best Book of the Year.
