Searching For Mr Chin
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Searching For Mr Chin
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Author : Anne-Marie Lee-Loy
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-28
Searching For Mr Chin written by Anne-Marie Lee-Loy 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 2010-05-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
West Indian literary representations of local Chinese populations illuminate concepts of national belonging.
Coral Reefs
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Author : Jason Chin
language : en
Publisher: Flash Point
Release Date : 2011-10-25
Coral Reefs written by Jason Chin and has been published by Flash Point this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-25 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
During an ordinary visit to the library, a girl pulls a not-so-ordinary book from the shelves. As she turns the pages in this book about coral reefs, the city around her slips away and she finds herself surrounded by the coral cities of the sea and the mysterious plants and animals that live, hunt, and hide there. Chin's approach makes this book a must-have common core tool for teachers and librarians introducing scientific principals to young students.
Beyond The Country Of Children
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Author : Kyle Herbert
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2022-05-19
Beyond The Country Of Children written by Kyle Herbert and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Peter’s father, Mr. Chin, is a carpenter who must leave for a week to do a job in a faraway town. However, one week away turns to two, and two weeks turn to three, until Peter is convinced his father is actually missing. Cynthy, the prettiest girl in school, volunteers to help with the search. The Chins’ land has a barn that sits atop a peculiar little brook. Guided by the strange bare-footed boy, Peter writes a note to his father on a piece of wood and drops it into the water. He soon gets a message back. It’s not from Mr. Chin, but it does say that Mr. Chin needs help. Setting off on a rescue mission, Peter and Cynthy soon find themselves in a parallel world retaining features of their New England landscape—like covered bridges, stone sheep fences, and tribal lands—but also a river of cocoa, a school taught and attended exclusively by animals, and a medieval tournament in which the combatants are only shadows. Peter is determined to find his lost father, but he first must survive this fantasy land and find a way home.
The Affinity Of The Eye
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Author : Ignacio López-Calvo
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2013-06-06
The Affinity Of The Eye written by Ignacio López-Calvo and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Social Science categories.
In The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru, Ignacio López-Calvo rises above the political emergence of the Fujimori phenomenon and uses politics and literature to provide one of the first comprehensive looks at how the Japanese assimilated and inserted themselves into Peruvian culture. Through contemporary writers’ testimonies, essays, fiction, and poetry, López-Calvo constructs an account of the cultural formation of Japanese migrant communities. With deftly sensitive interviews and comments, he portrays the difficulties of being a Japanese Peruvian. Despite a few notable examples, Asian Peruvians have been excluded from a sense of belonging or national identity in Peru, which provides López-Calvo with the opportunity to record what the community says about their own cultural production. In so doing, López-Calvo challenges fixed notions of Japanese Peruvian identity. The Affinity of the Eye scrutinizes authors such as José Watanabe, Fernando Iwasaki, Augusto Higa, Doris Moromisato, and Carlos Yushimito, discussing their literature and their connections to the past, present, and future. Whether these authors push against or accept what it means to be Japanese Peruvians, they enrich the images and feelings of that experience. Through a close reading of literary and cultural productions, López-Calvo’s analysis challenges and reframes the parameters of being Nikkei in Peru. Covering both Japanese issues in Peru and Peruvian issues in Japan, the book is more than a compendium of stories, characters, and titles. It proves the fluid, enriching, and ongoing relationship that exists between Peru and Japan.
Chinese Cubans
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Author : Kathleen López
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013
Chinese Cubans written by Kathleen López and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Business & Economics categories.
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish-language sources in both China and Cuba, Kathleen Lopez explores the transition of the Chinese from indentured to free migrants, the formation of transnational communities, and the eventual incorporation of the Chinese into the Cuban citizenry during the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese Cubans shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, Lopez draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.
The Chinese Atlantic
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Author : Sean Metzger
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-05
The Chinese Atlantic written by Sean Metzger and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with History categories.
In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film, painting, performance, and installation art, Metzger traces flows of money, culture, and aesthetics to reveal the ways in which routes of commerce stretching back to the Dutch Golden Age have molded and continue to influence the social reproduction of Chineseness. With a particular focus on the Caribbean, Metzger investigates the expressive culture of Chinese migrants and the communities that received these waves of people. He interrogates central issues in the study of similar case studies from South Africa and England to demonstrate how Chinese Atlantic seascapes frame globalization as we experience it today. Frequently focusing on art that interacts directly with the sites in which it is located, Metzger explores how Chinese migrant laborers and entrepreneurs did the same to shape—both physically and culturally—the new spaces in which they found themselves. In this manner, Metzger encourages us to see how artistic imagination and practice interact with migration to produce a new way of framing the global.
Chineseness In Chile
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Author : Maria Montt Strabucchi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-12-15
Chineseness In Chile written by Maria Montt Strabucchi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-15 with Political Science categories.
This book explores the role of Chineseness or lo chino in the production of Chilean national identity. It does so by discussing the many voices, images, and intentions of diverse actors who contribute to stereotyping or problematizing Chineseness in Chile. The authors argue that in general, representing and perceiving China or Chineseness as the Other is part of a broader cultural and political strategy for various stakeholders to articulate Chile as either a Western country or one that is becoming-Western. The authors trace the evolution of the symbolic role that China and Chineseness play in defining racial, gendered, and class aspects of Chilean national social imaginary. In doing so, they challenge a common idea that Chineseness is a stable signifier and the simplistic perception of the ethnic Chinese as the unassimilable foreigner within the nation. In response, the authors call for a postmigrant approach to understanding identities and Chilean society beyond stubborn Orient-Occident and us-them dichotomies.
Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture
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Author : Jennifer Ann Ho
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-12
Racial Ambiguity In Asian American Culture written by Jennifer Ann Ho 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 2015-05-12 with History categories.
The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how Asian American subjects evince a deep racial ambiguity that unmoors the concept of race from any fixed or finite understanding. For example, the book examines the racial ambiguity of Japanese American nisei Yoshiko Nakamura deLeon, who during World War II underwent an abrupt transition from being an enemy alien to an assimilating American, via the Mixed Marriage Policy of 1942. It looks at the blogs of Korean, Taiwanese, and Vietnamese Americans who were adopted as children by white American families and have conflicted feelings about their “honorary white” status. And it discusses Tiger Woods, the most famous mixed-race Asian American, whose description of himself as “Cablinasian”—reflecting his background as Black, Asian, Caucasian, and Native American—perfectly captures the ambiguity of racial classifications. Race is an abstraction that we treat as concrete, a construct that reflects only our desires, fears, and anxieties. Jennifer Ho demonstrates in Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture that seeing race as ambiguous puts us one step closer to a potential antidote to racism.
Affect Performativity And Chinese Diasporas In The Caribbean
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Author : Elena Igartuburu García
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-12
Affect Performativity And Chinese Diasporas In The Caribbean written by Elena Igartuburu García and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive selecting contemporary texts that signal a changing paradigm in postcolonial literature at the turn of the twenty-first century. Whereas, historically, Chinese minorities had been erased or presented as ultimate Others, contemporary texts mobilize Chinese characters and their stories strategically to propose alternative configurations of community and belonging grounded in affective structures and contest the coloniality of national imaginaries.
Rebel Angels
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Author : Libba Bray
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Rebel Angels written by Libba Bray 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 2009-07-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In this thrilling sequel, Gemma continues to pursue her destiny to bind the magic of the Realms and restore it to the Order. Gemma and her friends from Spence use magical power to transport themselves on visits from their corseted world of Victorian London (at the height of the Christmas season), to the visionary country of the Realms, with its strange beauty and menace. There they search for the lost Temple, the key to Gemma's mission, and comfort Pippa, their friend who has been left behind in the Realms. After these visits they bring back magical power for a short time to use in their own world. Meanwhile, Gemma is torn between her attraction to the exotic Kartik, the messenger from the opposing forces of the Rakshana, and the handsome but clueless Simon, a young man of good family who is courting her. This is the second book in Libba Bray's engrossing trilogy, set in a time of strict morality and barely repressed sensuality, about a girl who saw another way.