Across The Seas
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Across The Seas
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Author : Klaus Neumann
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2015-05-31
Across The Seas written by Klaus Neumann and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-31 with Social Science categories.
Today, Australia's response to asylum-seeking 'boat people' is a hot-button issue that feeds the political news cycle. But the daily reports and political promises lack the historical context that would allow for informed debate. Have we ever taken our fair share of refugees? Have our past responses been motivated by humanitarian concerns or economic self-interest? Is the influx of 'boat people' over the last fifteen years really unprecedented? In this eloquent and informative book, historian Klaus Neumann examines both government policy and public attitudes towards refugees and asylum seekers since Federation. He places the Australian story in the context of global refugee movements, and international responses to them. Neumann examines many case studies, including the resettlement of displaced persons from European refugee camps in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and the panic generated by the arrival of Vietnamese asylum seekers during the 1977 federal election campaign. By exploring the ways in which politicians have approached asylum-seeker issues in the past, Neumann aims to inspire more creative thinking about current refugee and asylum-seeker policy. 'Klaus Neumann has written a humane, engrossing book imbued with the awareness that in telling the history of Australia, one tells the story of immigration. Immigrants — always resisted, always blasted by invective and ever essential to our society and polity — show us ourselves through the heroic journeys of ancestors, the recurrent frenzies of resistance, right up to our present parlous state as the most supposedly tolerant intolerant society on earth. But if you think you've read all this before, you should know Neumann has brought to this book a novelty of approach, a freshness of perception, that means all the others have been mere preparation.' Tom Keneally 'A riveting book, vast in scope and timely.' Arnold Zable 'Across the Seas is a call to remember, to rethink, and regenerate. And to overcome our culture of forgetting … it's a fine and vital book – a work of highly accessible and gripping historical scholarship, which must be read by as many people in this country, and abroad, as possible.' David Manne 'Across the Seas' strongest point is a lack of dudgeon. Rather than condemn or mock historical players with thunderous prose and stylistic eye-rolling, Neumann plays it cool … Neumann gives us a mature and measured consideration of an issue that will never cease to be complex.' Saturday Paper
Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas
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Author : Caroline Chia
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-11-13
Hokkien Theatre Across The Seas written by Caroline Chia and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Social Science categories.
This book adopts a refreshing approach by examining Hokkien theatre in a region connected by maritime networks, notably southern Fujian, Taiwan, Kinmen and Singapore. It considers how regional theatre is shaped by broader socio-cultural and political contexts and the motivation to stay relevant in an era of modernisation and secularisation. Political domains are often marked out by land boundaries, but the sea concept denotes fluidity, allowing theatrical forms to spread across these ‘land-bounded’ societies and share a common language and culture. "This is an insightful theatrical study on the web of Chinese cultural networks in southern China and Singapore, and by extension, between China and Southeast Asia in the twentieth century and beyond. Using diverse sources in multiple languages and extensive field ethnography, this is a ground-breaking study which is both didactic and inspiring." - Lee Tong Soon, author of Chinese Street Opera in Singapore (University of Illinois, 2009). "Focusing on Hokkien theatre, this book offers new insights into how Chinese performing art responds to geographical, temporal, and social changes. Historical sources in different languages are widely used to give access to the cultural characteristics of Hokkien theatre, offering valuable ethnographic reports on the contemporary practices of Hokkien theatre in Taiwan, Kinmen, and Singapore. The book comments on the changing ritualistic significance of Hokkien theatre, and help us understand how societies remember the past of a performing tradition, and shape its present." - Luo Ai Mei, Co-Editor of A Preliminary Survey of the Cantonese Eight Song Cycles in South China: History and Sources (2016)
Across The Seas Ginn Reading 360 Level 9
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Author : Ginn 360 Reading Programme
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Across The Seas Ginn Reading 360 Level 9 written by Ginn 360 Reading Programme and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.
Journey Across The Four Seas
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Author : Veronica Li
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Journey Across The Four Seas written by Veronica Li and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is a true and touching story of one Chinese woman's search for home. It is also an inspiring book about human yearning for a better life. To escape poverty, Flora Li fought her way through the education system and became one of the few women to get into the prestigious Hong Kong University. When the Japanese invaded, she fled to unoccupied China, where she met her future husband, the son of China's finance minister (later deputy prime minister). She thought she had found the ideal husband, but soon discovered that he suffered from emotional disorders caused by family conflicts and the wars he had grown up in. Whenever he had a breakdown, Flora would move the family to another city, from Shanghai to Nanking to Hong Kong to Bangkok to Taipei and finally across the four seas to the U.S. Throughout her migrations, Flora kept her sight on one goal-providing her children with the best possible education. Author of a thriller, Nightfall in Mogadishu, Veronica Li grew up mostly in Hong Kong and moved to the U.S. with her parents at fifteen. She has a B.A. in English from University of California, Berkeley and a master's in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University. Li was a journalist for seven years, working for the Asian Wall Street Journal and other news organizations. She later joined the World Bank, for which she traveled extensively and got her inspiration for her novel and other writings. Her most recent book is a novel called Confucius Says.
Seven Legs Across The Seas A Printer S Impressions Of Many Lands
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Author : Samuel Murray
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-16
Seven Legs Across The Seas A Printer S Impressions Of Many Lands written by Samuel Murray and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-16 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Seven Legs Across the Seas: A Printer's Impressions of Many Lands" by Samuel Murray. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Letters Across The Sea
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Author : Genevieve Graham
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2021-04-27
Letters Across The Sea written by Genevieve Graham and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-27 with Fiction categories.
Inspired by a little-known chapter of World War II history, a young Protestant girl and her Jewish neighbour are caught up in the terrible wave of hate sweeping the globe on the eve of war in this powerful love story that’s perfect for fans of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. If you’re reading this letter, that means I’m dead. I had obviously hoped to see you again, to explain in person, but fate had other plans. 1933 At eighteen years old, Molly Ryan dreams of becoming a journalist, but instead she spends her days working any job she can to help her family through the Depression crippling her city. The one bright spot in her life is watching baseball with her best friend, Hannah Dreyfus, and sneaking glances at Hannah’s handsome older brother, Max. But as the summer unfolds, more and more of Hitler’s hateful ideas cross the sea and “Swastika Clubs” and “No Jews Allowed” signs spring up around Toronto, a city already simmering with mass unemployment, protests, and unrest. When tensions between the Irish and Jewish communities erupt in a riot one smouldering day in August, Molly and Max are caught in the middle, with devastating consequences for both their families. 1939 Six years later, the Depression has eased and Molly is a reporter at her local paper. But a new war is on the horizon, putting everyone she cares about most in peril. As letters trickle in from overseas, Molly is forced to confront what happened all those years ago, but is it too late to make things right? From the desperate streets of Toronto to the embattled shores of Hong Kong, Letters Across the Sea is a poignant novel about the enduring power of love to cross dangerous divides even in the darkest of times—from the #1 bestselling author of The Forgotten Home Child.
Across The Seas
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Author : L. J. B. Novels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05-17
Across The Seas written by L. J. B. Novels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-17 with categories.
n the height of pirate crime, Regina Arrosa plays escort to the General of a seaside town. Held against her will she desperately wishes for freedom. However, when Pirate Captain Antonio Fernandez grants Regina's wish she becomes fearful. Knowing nothing of the outside world Regina must adapt to a new life at sea Antonio must break down her walls and prove to her she is worth more. Will he get through to her in time or will Antonio's old enemies ruin his plans?
Across The Seas
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Author : Hugh James (Editor of Across the seas)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
Across The Seas written by Hugh James (Editor of Across the seas) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Missions categories.
Over Seas Of Memory
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Author : Michaël Ferrier
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Over Seas Of Memory written by Michaël Ferrier and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Fiction categories.
Based loosely on the author's life, this novel recounts the narrator's journey following the footsteps of his Mauritius-born grandfather, Maxime, who abruptly boarded a boat bound for Madagascar in 1922 and never returned. Michaël Ferrier tells a tale of discovery as well as the elusive, colorful story of Maxime's life in Madagascar, which included a stint as an acrobat in a traveling circus and, later, as a diver and artist on marine expeditions. Maxime's story is one of adventure but also romance. He falls in love with a refined young Pauline Nuñes, Ferrier's grandmother, whose well-to-do family of Indian merchants owns a hotel famous for playing the latest music--including American jazz--and throwing popular dances and parties. Over Seas of Memory weaves these personal stories with the island's history, including its period as a Vichy-governed territory at the center of what was termed "Project Madagascar," the Nazi plan to relocate Europe's Jewish population to the island. As Ferrier interlaces his family's intimate story with the larger story of colonialism's lasting and complicated impact--including the racial and ethnic divisions it fomented--he engages with critical issues in contemporary France concerning national and cultural identity.
When Jessie Came Across The Sea
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Author : Amy Hest
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2003-09-01
When Jessie Came Across The Sea written by Amy Hest and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A thirteen-year-old Jewish orphan reluctantly leaves her grandmother and immigrates to New York City, where she works for three years sewing lace and earning money to bring Grandmother to the United States, too. Reprint.