Ching Ling Foo America S First Chinese Superstar
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Ching Ling Foo America S First Chinese Superstar
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Author : Samuel D. Porteous
language : en
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Release Date : 2021-05-21
Ching Ling Foo America S First Chinese Superstar written by Samuel D. Porteous and has been published by Hybrid Global Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
On the eve of the 20th century, Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo, one of the greatest illusionists ever seen on American soil, along with his talented family of musicians and acrobats overcomes deportation attempts, homeland tragedy, crooked managers and a diabolically clever American copycat to make an indelible impact on American culture becoming one of the highest paid and most popular acts in the United States twice. First, between 1898 and 1900 then once more between 1912 and 1915. Foo's story is indeed a magical one but, it is also so much more. With its focus on the interplay between Chinese and Western culture, celebrity, intercultural teen singing sensations, geopolitics, international intrigue, nativism, and disruptive technology, careful readers will discover "Foo" may hold many lessons for our own increasingly unruly era.
Ching Ling Foo
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Author : Ching Ling Foo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1900
Ching Ling Foo written by Ching Ling Foo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1900 with Magicians categories.
Stage name of qua Chee Ling. The magician Ching Ling Foo (1854-1922) was born in Beijing, China. He studied traditional Chinese magic and became a well-known and well-respected performer there. In 1898 he brought his show to the United States for a very successful tour. In his show, he breathed smoke and fire and produced ribbons and a fifteen foot long pole from his mouth. Ching Ling Foo caused a sensation when he took an empty piece of cloth, produced a huge bowl, full to the brim with water, and then pulled out a small child. File contains press cutting.
Yellowface
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Author : Krystyn R. Moon
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2005
Yellowface written by Krystyn R. Moon and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Imagining China: early nineteenth-century writings and musical productions -- Towards exclusion: American popular songs on Chinese immigration, 1850-1882 -- Chinese and Chinese immigrant performers on the American stage, 1830s-1920s -- The sounds of Chinese otherness and American popular music, 1880s-1920s -- From aversion to fascination: new lyrics and voices, 1880s-1920s -- The rise of Chinese and Chinese American vaudevillians, 1900s-1920s
Singing Soldiering And Sheet Music In America During The First World War
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Author : Christina Gier
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-10-19
Singing Soldiering And Sheet Music In America During The First World War written by Christina Gier and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-19 with Music categories.
An advertisement in the sheet music of the song “Goodbye Broadway, Hello France” (1917) announces: “Music will help win the war!” This ad hits upon an American sentiment expressed not just in advertising, but heard from other sectors of society during the American engagement in the First World War. It was an idea both imagined and practiced, from military culture to sheet music writers, about the power of music to help create a strong military and national community in the face of the conflict; it appears straightforward. Nevertheless, the published sheet music, in addition to discourse about gender, soldiering and music, evince a more complex picture of society. This book presents a study of sheet music and military singing practices in America during the First World War that critically situates them in the social discourses, including issues of segregation and suffrage, and the historical context of the war. The transfer of musical styles between the civilian and military realm was fluid because so many men were enlisted from homes with the sheet music while they were also singing songs in their military training. Close musical analysis brings the meaningful musical and lyrical expressions of this time period to the forefront of our understanding of soldier and civilian music making at this time.
Gold Mountain Big City
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Author : Jim Schein
language : en
Publisher: Cameron Books
Release Date : 2020
Gold Mountain Big City written by Jim Schein and has been published by Cameron Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
The unique character of San Francisco's Chinatown is revealed in a historical map and fascinating photographs This colorful and playful time capsule of San Francisco's Chinatown shares the stories of the unique businesses, culture, and people encountered by map illustrator Ken Cathcart between 1939 and 1955. Each quadrant of the map, supplemented by never-before-seen black-and-white photographs and meticulous research, drops the reader into a world of curious characters that reveals a glimpse of the immigration story so universal to America in both its celebratory aspects and its darkness.
The First Chinese American
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Author : Scott D. Seligman
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-01
The First Chinese American written by Scott D. Seligman and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847–1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term “Chinese American,” Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to win their rights. A trailblazer and a born showman who proclaimed himself China’s first Confucian missionary to the United States, he founded America’s first association of Chinese voters and testified before Congress to get laws that denied them citizenship repealed. Wong challenged Americans to live up to the principles they freely espoused but failed to apply to the Chinese in their midst. This evocative biography is the first book-length account of the life and times of one of America’s most famous Chinese—and one of its earliest campaigners for racial equality.
The Fortunes
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Author : Peter Ho Davies
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2016-09-06
The Fortunes written by Peter Ho Davies and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Fiction categories.
An NPR Best Book of the Year: “The most honest, unflinching, cathartically biting novel I’ve read about the Chinese American experience.” —Celeste Ng, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts Winner, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award * Winner, Chautauqua Prize *Finalist, Dayton Literary Peace Prize * A New York Times Notable Book * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Sly, funny, intelligent, and artfully structured, The Fortunes recasts American history through the lives of Chinese Americans and reimagines the multigenerational novel through the fractures of immigrant family experience. Inhabiting four lives—a railroad baron’s valet who unwittingly ignites an explosion in Chinese labor; Hollywood’s first Chinese movie star; a hate-crime victim whose death mobilizes the Asian American community; and a biracial writer visiting China for an adoption—this novel captures and capsizes over a century of our history, showing that even as family bonds are denied and broken, a community can survive—as much through love as blood. “Intense and dreamlike . . . filled with quiet resonances across time.” —The New Yorker “Riveting and luminous . . . Like the best books, this one haunts the reader well after the end.” —Jesmyn Ward, National Book Award-winning author of Sing, Unburied, Sing “A moving, often funny, and deeply provocative novel about the lives of four very different Chinese Americans as they encounter the myriad opportunities and clear limits of American life . . . gorgeously told.” —Chang-rae Lee, Buzzfeed “A poignant, cascading four-part novel . . . Outstanding.” —David Mitchell, The Guardian
Chinese American Voices
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Author : Judy Yung
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-03-20
Chinese American Voices written by Judy Yung and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-20 with History categories.
Described by others as quaint and exotic, or as depraved and threatening, and, more recently, as successful and exemplary, the Chinese in America have rarely been asked to describe themselves in their own words. This superb anthology, a diverse and illuminating collection of primary documents and stories by Chinese Americans, provides an intimate and textured history of the Chinese in America from their arrival during the California Gold Rush to the present. Among the documents are letters, speeches, testimonies, oral histories, personal memoirs, poems, essays, and folksongs; many have never been published before or have been translated into English for the first time. They bring to life the diverse voices of immigrants and American-born; laborers, merchants, and professionals; ministers and students; housewives and prostitutes; and community leaders and activists. Together, they provide insight into immigration, work, family and social life, and the longstanding fight for equality and inclusion. Featuring photographs and extensive introductions to the documents written by three leading Chinese American scholars, this compelling volume offers a panoramic perspective on the Chinese American experience and opens new vistas on American social, cultural, and political history.
Vaudeville Old New
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Author : Frank Cullen
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2007
Vaudeville Old New written by Frank Cullen and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Entertainers categories.
Chinese Women S Cinema
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Author : Lingzhen Wang
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-30
Chinese Women S Cinema written by Lingzhen Wang and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with Performing Arts categories.
The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation, and issues of gender and sexuality, covering works from the 1920s to the present. Writing from the disciplines of Asian, women's, film, and auteur studies, contributors reclaim the work of Esther Eng, Tang Shu Shuen, Dong Kena, and Sylvia Chang, among others, who have transformed Chinese cinematic modernity. Chinese Women's Cinema is a unique, transcultural, interdisciplinary conversation on authorship, feminist cinema, transnational gender, and cinematic agency and representation. Lingzhen Wang's comprehensive introduction recounts the history and limitations of established feminist film theory, particularly its relationship with female cinematic authorship and agency. She also reviews critiques of classical feminist film theory, along with recent developments in feminist practice, altogether remapping feminist film discourse within transnational and interdisciplinary contexts. Wang's subsequent redefinition of women's cinema, and brief history of women's cinematic practices in modern China, encourage the reader to reposition gender and cinema within a transnational feminist configuration, such that power and knowledge are reexamined among and across cultures and nation-states.