Chinese In The Woods

Author : Sue Fawn Chung
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097556
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese in the Woods written by Sue Fawn Chung and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though recognized for their work in the mining and railroad industries, the Chinese also played a critical role in the nineteenth-century lumber trade. Sue Fawn Chung continues her acclaimed examination of the impact of Chinese immigrants on the American West by bringing to life the tensions, towns, and lumber camps of the Sierra Nevada during a boom period of economic expansion. Chinese workers labored as woodcutters and flume-herders, lumberjacks and loggers. Exploding the myth of the Chinese as a docile and cheap labor army, Chung shows Chinese laborers earned wages similar to those of non-Asians. Men working as camp cooks, among other jobs, could make even more. At the same time, she draws on archives and archaeology to reconstruct everyday existence, offering evocative portraits of camp living, small town life, personal and work relationships, and the production and technical aspects of a dangerous trade. Chung also explores how Chinese used the legal system to win property and wage rights and how economic and technological change ultimately diminished Chinese participation in the lumber industry. Eye-opening and meticulous, Chinese in the Woods rewrites an important chapter in the history of labor and the American West.

Author : Fiona Cowell
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 184383524X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Richard Woods (1715-1793) written by Fiona Cowell and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary of the famous landscape designer `Capability' Brown, Richard Woods has never received the recognition he deserves: in contrast to Brown, he emphasised the pleasure ground and kitchen garden, with a more pronounced use of flowers than was general among the landscape improvers of his time. He liked variety and incident in his plans and, where he was employed on a larger scale, the encroachment of the pleasure ground into the park created the Woodsian 'pleasure park'. In this important work of detection and biography, Fiona Cowell analyses his designs, and explores his activities as a plantsman, a determined amateur architect and a farmer. In particular, she shows the difficulties he found as a Catholic living in penal times, examining the difficulties encountered by both Woods and his Catholic patrons, and placing the man and his work in their wider social and economic context. Unjustly neglected in the past, he is here given his rightful place among the creators of the English landscape style.

Author : W. W. Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sketches of China written by W. W. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nils Tongring
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812560211
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Woods Hole Mathematics written by Nils Tongring and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central theme of this volume is the contemporary mathematics of geometry and physics, but the work also discusses the problem of the secondary structure of proteins, and an overview of arc complexes with proposed applications to macromolecular folding is given.?Woods Hole has played such a vital role in both my mathematical and personal life that it is a great pleasure to see the mathematical tradition of the 1964 meeting resurrected forty years later and, as this volume shows, resurrected with new vigor and hopefully on a regular basis. I therefore consider it a signal honor to have been asked to introduce this volume with a few reminiscences of that meeting forty years ago.? Introduction by R Bott (Wolf Prize Winner, 2000).

Author : Sunamita Lim
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423600213
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Style written by Sunamita Lim and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the popular decorating concept of Feng Shui to a whole new level with authentic information on how to create a Chinese aesthetic. Learn how to alleviate clutter and increase the flow of chi, the universal life force; discover ways of integrating Chinese furniture and decorative arts to decorating styles; and stroll through a rich collection of images from homes, museums, and galleries.

Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135162489X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West written by Louise Tythacott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.

Author : George Patrick Ahern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography on Woods of the World written by George Patrick Ahern and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Substance and Symbol in Chinese Toggles written by Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Woman's Club, Shanghai, China
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Arts and Art Crafts of Ancient China written by American Woman's Club, Shanghai, China and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick William Foxworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Commercial Woods of the Malay Peninsula written by Frederick William Foxworthy and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: