Author: Theodore Sherman Palmer
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0893709379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Chronology and Names of the Death Valley Region in California, 1849-1949
Chronology of the Death Valley Region in California, 1849-1949, and Place Names of the Death Valley Region in California and Nevada, 1845-1947
Author: Theodore Sherman Palmer
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0893709379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Chronology and Names of the Death Valley Region in California, 1849-1949
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 0893709379
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Chronology and Names of the Death Valley Region in California, 1849-1949
Interior Department Centennial, 1849-1949
Author: National Archives (U.S.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai
Author: Christian Henriot
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Henriot portrays the sex trade in Shanghai, from the life of the courtesan to street prostitution.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521571654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Henriot portrays the sex trade in Shanghai, from the life of the courtesan to street prostitution.
The First Hundred Years, 1849-1949
Author: Fort Worth Press
Publisher:
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Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Central Railroad of New Jersey's First 100 Years, 1849-1949
Author: Elaine Anderson
Publisher: Center for Canal History &
ISBN: 9780930973001
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher: Center for Canal History &
ISBN: 9780930973001
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Returning Home with Glory
Author: Michael Williams
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888390538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Employing the classic Chinese saying “returning home with glory” (man zai rong gui) as the title, Michael Williams highlights the importance of return and home in the history of the connections established and maintained between villagers in the Pearl River Delta and various Pacific ports from the time of the Californian and Australian gold rushes to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Conventional scholarship on Chinese migration tends to privilege nation-state factors or concepts which are dependent on national boundaries. Such approaches are more concerned with the migrants’ settlement in the destination country, downplaying the awkward fact that the majority of the overseas Chinese (huaqiao) originally intended to (and eventually did) return to their home villages (qiaoxiang). Williams goes back to the basics by considering the strong influence exerted by the family and the home village on those who first set out in order to give a better appreciation of how and why many modest communities in southern China became more modern and affluent. He also gives a voice to those who never left their villages (women in particular). Designed as a single case study, this work presents detailed research based on the more than eighty villages of the Long Du district (near Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province), as well as the three major destinations—Sydney, San Francisco, and Honolulu—of the huaqiaowho came from this region. Out of this analysis of what truly mattered to the villagers, the choices they had and made, and what constituted success and failure in their lives, a sympathetic portrayal of the huaqiao emerges. Returning Home with Glory inaugurates the Hong Kong University Press book series “Crossing Seas”. “From the very local qiaoxiang or home village of migrants to the transnational destinations in America and Australia, this book is a model of how to write ‘diaspora’ into modern Chinese history. The Cantonese Pacific comes alive in this highly readable book that is sure to capture our imagination.” —Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University “A perceptively conceptualized and well-researched case study of an emigrant community in the Pearl River Delta that extended its reach to Sydney, the Hawaiian Islands, and San Francisco. Williams offers a refreshing qiaoxiang perspective through which to understand the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” —Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine “This welcome study of Chinese mobility among settler societies of the Pacific places the family and the village at its heart, just as its subjects did over the century under review, to 1949. A path-breaking study based on first-hand research.” —John Fitzgerald, Swinburne University of Technology
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888390538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Employing the classic Chinese saying “returning home with glory” (man zai rong gui) as the title, Michael Williams highlights the importance of return and home in the history of the connections established and maintained between villagers in the Pearl River Delta and various Pacific ports from the time of the Californian and Australian gold rushes to the founding of the People’s Republic of China. Conventional scholarship on Chinese migration tends to privilege nation-state factors or concepts which are dependent on national boundaries. Such approaches are more concerned with the migrants’ settlement in the destination country, downplaying the awkward fact that the majority of the overseas Chinese (huaqiao) originally intended to (and eventually did) return to their home villages (qiaoxiang). Williams goes back to the basics by considering the strong influence exerted by the family and the home village on those who first set out in order to give a better appreciation of how and why many modest communities in southern China became more modern and affluent. He also gives a voice to those who never left their villages (women in particular). Designed as a single case study, this work presents detailed research based on the more than eighty villages of the Long Du district (near Zhongshan City in Guangdong Province), as well as the three major destinations—Sydney, San Francisco, and Honolulu—of the huaqiaowho came from this region. Out of this analysis of what truly mattered to the villagers, the choices they had and made, and what constituted success and failure in their lives, a sympathetic portrayal of the huaqiao emerges. Returning Home with Glory inaugurates the Hong Kong University Press book series “Crossing Seas”. “From the very local qiaoxiang or home village of migrants to the transnational destinations in America and Australia, this book is a model of how to write ‘diaspora’ into modern Chinese history. The Cantonese Pacific comes alive in this highly readable book that is sure to capture our imagination.” —Evelyn Hu-DeHart, Brown University “A perceptively conceptualized and well-researched case study of an emigrant community in the Pearl River Delta that extended its reach to Sydney, the Hawaiian Islands, and San Francisco. Williams offers a refreshing qiaoxiang perspective through which to understand the experiences of Chinese immigrants in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” —Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine “This welcome study of Chinese mobility among settler societies of the Pacific places the family and the village at its heart, just as its subjects did over the century under review, to 1949. A path-breaking study based on first-hand research.” —John Fitzgerald, Swinburne University of Technology
A History of a Hundred Years
Author: Ebbw Vale Literary and Scientific Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39
Book Description
The Story of a Hundred Years, 1849-1949
Author: D. Anderson and Son Ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Streets
Author: Jason Wordie
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622098138
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The book starts with a district familiar to all visitors -- Tsim Sha Tsui -- but then moves into the hinterland of Kowloon, taking the reader and walker far beyond the well-known streets of tourist-oriented shops and hotels. Streets: Exploring Kowloon, like its companion, Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island, guides the reader with maps and travel information to take 45 walks throughout Kowloon, each along a specific street pointing out historically and culturally important sites, but also the curious and the intriguing.
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9789622098138
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The book starts with a district familiar to all visitors -- Tsim Sha Tsui -- but then moves into the hinterland of Kowloon, taking the reader and walker far beyond the well-known streets of tourist-oriented shops and hotels. Streets: Exploring Kowloon, like its companion, Streets: Exploring Hong Kong Island, guides the reader with maps and travel information to take 45 walks throughout Kowloon, each along a specific street pointing out historically and culturally important sites, but also the curious and the intriguing.
Modern Women in China and Japan
Author: Katrina Gulliver
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857721356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in a crucial time of political and economic upheaval. Including an analysis of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Pearl S. Buck, The Modern Woman in China and Japan is an important contribution to gender studies and will appeal to historians and scholars of China and East Asia as well as to those studying Asian and American literature.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857721356
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the West. This 'modern woman' archetype was also penetrating into Eastern cultures, however, challenging the Chinese and Japanese historical norm of the woman as homemaker, servant or geisha. Through a focus on the writings of the Western women who engaged with the Far East, and the Eastern writers and personalities who reacted to this new global gender communication by forming their own separate identities, Katrina Gulliver reveals the complex redefining of the self taking place in a crucial time of political and economic upheaval. Including an analysis of the work of Nobel Prize laureate Pearl S. Buck, The Modern Woman in China and Japan is an important contribution to gender studies and will appeal to historians and scholars of China and East Asia as well as to those studying Asian and American literature.