Author: Lloyd Suh
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822239906
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
The Chinese Lady
Author: Lloyd Suh
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822239906
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822239906
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
Public Works for Water and Power Development and Energy Research Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1978
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Power resources
Languages : en
Pages : 1536
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1216
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Internal Improvement
Author: John Lauritz Larson
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders' revolutionary republicanism.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807875643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans pinned their hopes for positive government action--internal improvement. The nation's early republican governments undertook a wide range of internal improvement projects meant to assure Americans' security, prosperity, and enlightenment--from the building of roads, canals, and bridges to the establishment of universities and libraries. But competitive struggles eventually undermined the interstate and interregional cooperation required, and the public soured on the internal improvement movement. Jacksonian politicians seized this opportunity to promote a more libertarian political philosophy in place of activist, positive republicanism. By the 1850s, the United States had turned toward a laissez-faire system of policy that, ironically, guaranteed more freedom for capitalists and entrepreneurs than ever envisioned in the founders' revolutionary republicanism.
Public Works Appropriations, 1963
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher:
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 1672
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher:
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Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Votes & Proceedings
Author: New South Wales. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher:
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Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New South Wales
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard)
Author: New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description