The China Mystique

Author : Karen J. Leong
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520938632
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China Mystique written by Karen J. Leong and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Sheridan Prasso
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786736321
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Asian Mystique written by Sheridan Prasso and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Karen Janis Leong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China Mystique written by Karen Janis Leong and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wendi Leigh Adamek
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231136641
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystique of Transmission written by Wendi Leigh Adamek and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Helen Hu
Publisher : Hu House Publishing International
ISBN 13 : 1427650780
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Body Without Mystique written by Helen Hu and published by Hu House Publishing International. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jeffrey Richards
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786720647
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China and the Chinese in Popular Film written by Jeffrey Richards and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the negative image was embodied in recurrent cinematic depictions of opium dens, tong wars, sadistic dragon ladies and corrupt warlords and how, in the 1930s and 1940s, a countervailing positive image involved the heroic peasants of The Good Earth and Dragon Seed fighting against Japanese invasion in wartime tributes to the West's ally, Nationalist China. The cinema's split level response is also traced through the images of the ultimate Oriental villain, the sinister Dr. Fu Manchu and the timeless Chinese hero, the intelligent and benevolent detective Charlie Chan.Filling a longstanding gap in Cinema and Cultural History, the book is founded in fresh research into Hollywood's shifting representations of China and its people.

Author : Lawrence L. Allen
Publisher : AMACOM/American Management Association
ISBN 13 : 081441432X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chocolate Fortunes written by Lawrence L. Allen and published by AMACOM/American Management Association. This book was released on 2010 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Could there be a more intriguing East-meets-West story than one about the introduction of chocolate-that very symbol of Western indulgence-to legendarily austere China?

Author : Maxine Hong Kingston
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307759334
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman Warrior written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Anthony B. Chan
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461670411
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perpetually Cool written by Anthony B. Chan and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-02-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anna May Wong was an extraordinary Asian American woman who became the country's most famous film actress of Chinese descent. From small parts in silent films to starring roles in Hollywood and across the Atlantic, Wong made an impression on audiences of all persuasions. In Perpetually Cool, Anthony Chan takes the reader on a compelling journey through Wong's early years in Los Angeles and her first Hollywood pictures. Chan also examines the scope and nature of race, gender, and power and their impact on Wong's personal growth as a Chinese American. Perpetually Cool is not only the captivating story of a cinematic career, but also of roots and identity, as it recounts Wong's desire to connect with her heritage in the United States and in China. Chan provides extensive textual analyses of Wong's signature films, especially The Toll of the Sea (1922), The Thief of Bagdad (1924) with Douglas Fairbanks, and her most famous role as Hui Fei in Shanghai Express (1932), opposite Marlene Dietrich. Perpetually Cool is a fitting tribute to the influence of this Chinese American icon.

Author : Kam Wing Chan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351658263
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics: The Hukou System and Migration written by Kam Wing Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many agree that rapid urbanization in China in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is a mega process significantly reshaping China and the global economy. China’s urbanization also carries a certain mystique, which has long fascinated generations of scholars and journalists alike. As it has turned out, many of the asserted Chinese feats are mostly fancied claims or gross misinterpretations (of statistics, for example). There does exist, however, an urbanization that displays rather uncommon "Chinese" characteristics that remain to inadequately understood. Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China’s hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years. These works range from seminal papers on Chinese urban definitions and statistics; and broad-perspective analysis of the hukou system of its first semi-centennial; to examinations of migration trends and geography; and critical evaluations of China’s 2014 urbanization blueprint and hukou reform plan. This convenient assemblage contains many of Chan’s recent important works. Together they also form a relatively coherent set on this topic. They are essential readings to anyone serious about gaining a true understanding of the prodigious urbanization in contemporary China.