The China Mystique
Title | The China Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Karen J. Leong |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 262 |
Release | 2005-07-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520938632 |
Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China—Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong—Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.
The China Mystique
Title | The China Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Janis Leong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 612 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | China |
ISBN |
The China Mystique
Title | The China Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Janis Leong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1999 |
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The Asian Mystique
Title | The Asian Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Sheridan Prasso |
Publisher | PublicAffairs |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2009-04-29 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0786736321 |
Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions color our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars don't necessarily see.The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia and Asians as they really are, with unclouded, deeroticized eyes. It traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood, examines the phenomenon of 'yellow fever,' then goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an Asia we usually mythologize too well to really understand. It strips away our misconceptions and stereotypes, revealing instead the fully dimensional human beings beyond our usual perceptions. The Asian Mystique is required reading for anyone with interest in or interaction with Asia or Asian-origin people, as well as any serious student or practitioner of East-West relations.
The Mystique of Transmission
Title | The Mystique of Transmission PDF eBook |
Author | Wendi Leigh Adamek |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231136641 |
Adamek provides a reading of the late 8th century Chan/Zen Buddhist Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations) and provides its first English translation. The work combines a history of the transmission of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the 8th century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan.
Body Without Mystique
Title | Body Without Mystique PDF eBook |
Author | Helen Hu |
Publisher | Hu House Publishing International |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2011-03-08 |
Genre | Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | 1427650780 |
Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine basic theory , to help people to identify own body constitution and current health condition and health problems one’s body is facing and will teach people how to chose natural food therapy specially suitable to you . By combining color, taste, temperature and the energy direction of the natural food compatible with your body constitution, your stage of life, and seasonal changes, you learn to avoid health problems in the future. And it gives brutally honest facts about the natural biological clock of our bodies in regard to many misconstrued “modern concepts” of hormone replacement therapy, vitamin and commercialized body detoxification It is based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. It explains all the 8 types of body constitutions. It also addresses seasonal changes, different life stages and food plans that balance our body.
The Woman Warrior
Title | The Woman Warrior PDF eBook |
Author | Maxine Hong Kingston |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2010-09-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307759334 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.