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Rickshaw Coolie


Rickshaw Coolie
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Author : James Francis Warren
language : en
Publisher: NUS Press
Release Date : 2003

Rickshaw Coolie written by James Francis Warren and has been published by NUS Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.


Between 1880 and 1930 colonial Singapore attracted tens of thousands of Chinese immigrant laborers, brought to serve its rapidly growing economy. This book chronicles the vast movement of coolies between China and the Nanyang, and their efforts to survive in colonial Singapore. Focusing in on one particular occupation, of rickshaw coolie, this study unveils the devastating poverty of the Chinese sojourner in the colonial city, the disjunctions between colonial order and the reality of life on the streets. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including Coroner's records overlooked for many years, and making use of the technique of collective biography, this book brings to life the texture of experience, the ironies and - often - the despair of the laborers of urban Singapore. In the years since its original publication in 1986, Rickshaw Coolie has become an inspiration to those seeking to come to grips with Singapore's past.



Son Of Singapore


Son Of Singapore
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Author : Tan Kok Seng
language : en
Publisher: Epigram Books
Release Date : 1974

Son Of Singapore written by Tan Kok Seng and has been published by Epigram Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


A publishing sensation in the 1970s and 1980s, Son of Singapore traces the extraordinary upbringing of an Everyman. As a Teochew farm boy coming of age during the Japanese Occupation, Tan Kok Seng enters the “university of the world” at only 15, becoming a coolie at the Orchard Road market. On his rounds to the homes of the “Red Hairs”, he befriends a group of Chinese dialect-speaking Caucasians who inspire him to improve himself beyond his humble roots. Set against Singapore’s push towards self-governance, Tan’s engaging autobiography reflects the pioneering spirit of the times. Written in deceptively simple prose, notable for its English transliteration of Teochew adages, Son of Singapore sensitively captures fast-disappearing places, people and everyday ways of living.



Coolie Traffic And Kidnapping


Coolie Traffic And Kidnapping
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Author : Don Aldus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

Coolie Traffic And Kidnapping written by Don Aldus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1876 with Chinese categories.




Journal Of A Voyage With Coolie Emigrants From Calcutta To Trinidad By Capt And Mrs Swinton Ed By J Carlile


Journal Of A Voyage With Coolie Emigrants From Calcutta To Trinidad By Capt And Mrs Swinton Ed By J Carlile
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Author : E. Swinton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1859

Journal Of A Voyage With Coolie Emigrants From Calcutta To Trinidad By Capt And Mrs Swinton Ed By J Carlile written by E. Swinton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1859 with categories.




The Coolie S Great War


The Coolie S Great War
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Author : Radhika Singha
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-12-15

The Coolie S Great War written by Radhika Singha and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with History categories.


Though largely invisible in histories of the First World War, over??550,000 men in the ranks of the Indian army were non-combatants. From the porters, stevedores and construction workers in the Coolie Corps to those who maintained supply lines and removed the wounded from the battlefield, Radhika Singha recovers the story of this unacknowledged service. The labor regimes built on the backs of these 'coolies' sustained the military infrastructure of empire; their deployment in interregional arenas bent to the demands of global war. Viewed as racially subordinate and subject to 'non-martial' caste designations, they fought back against their status, using the warring powers' need for manpower as leverage to challenge traditional service hierarchies and wage differentials. The Coolie's Great War views that global conflict through the lens of Indian labor, constructing a distinct geography of the war--from tribal settlements and colonial jails, beyond India's frontiers, to the battlefronts of France and Mesopotamia.



Coolie


Coolie
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Author : Mulk Raj Anand
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 1994

Coolie written by Mulk Raj Anand and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction, General categories.


Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-worker and rickshaw driver. It is a fight for survival that illuminates, with raw immediacy, the grim fate of the masses in pre-Partition India.



Coolie


Coolie
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Author : Mulk Raj Anand
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-11-01

Coolie written by Mulk Raj Anand and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-11-01 with Fiction categories.




Coolie Woman


Coolie Woman
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Author : Gaiutra Bahadur
language : en
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
Release Date : 2013-09-26

Coolie Woman written by Gaiutra Bahadur and has been published by Hurst Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a ‘coolie’, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past, hoping to solve a mystery: what made her leave her country? And had she also left behind a man? Gaiutra Bahadur, an American journalist, pursues traces of her great-grandmother over three continents. She also excavates the repressed history of some quarter of a million female coolies. Disparaged as fallen, many were runaways, widows or outcasts, and many migrated alone. Coolie Woman chronicles their epic passage from Calcutta to the Caribbean, from departures akin either to kidnap or escape, through sea voyages rife with sexploitation, to new worlds where women were in short supply. When they exercised the power this gave them, some fell victim to the machete, in brutal attacks, often fatal, by men whom they spurned. Sex with overseers both empowered and imperiled other women, in equal measure. It also precipitated uprisings, as a struggle between Indian men and their women intersected with one between coolies and their overlords.



The Coolie Speaks


The Coolie Speaks
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Author : Lisa Yun
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2008-04-22

The Coolie Speaks written by Lisa Yun and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-22 with History categories.


Introducing radical counter-visions of race and slavery, and probing the legal and philosophical questions raised by indenture, The Coolie Speaks offers the first critical reading of a massive testimony case from Cuba in 1874. From this case, Yun traces the emergence of a "coolie narrative" that forms a counterpart to the "slave narrative." The written and oral testimonies of nearly 3,000 Chinese laborers in Cuba, who toiled alongside African slaves, offer a rare glimpse into the nature of bondage and the tortuous transition to freedom. Trapped in one of the last standing systems of slavery in the Americas, the Chinese described their hopes and struggles, and their unrelenting quest for freedom. Yun argues that the testimonies from this case suggest radical critiques of the "contract" institution, the basis for free modern society. The example of Cuba, she suggests, constitutes the early experiment and forerunner of new contract slavery, in which the contract itself, taken to its extreme, was wielded as a most potent form of enslavement and complicity. Yun further considers the communal biography of a next-generation Afro-Chinese Cuban author and raises timely theoretical questions regarding race, diaspora, transnationalism, and globalization.



Coolies And Cane


Coolies And Cane
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Author : Moon-Ho Jung
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2006-04

Coolies And Cane written by Moon-Ho Jung and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04 with Business & Economics categories.


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