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Paper son : the inspiring story of Tyrus Wong, immigrant and artist
\"Before he became an artist named Tyrus Wong, he was a boy named Wong Geng Yeo. He traveled across a vast ocean from China to America with only a suitcase and a few papers. Not papers for drawing--which he loved to do--but immigration papers to start a new life. Once in America, Tyrus seized every opportunity to make art, eventually enrolling at an art institute in Los Angeles. Working as a janitor at night, his mop twirled like a paintbrush in his hands. Eventually, he was given the opportunity of a lifetime--and using sparse brushstrokes and soft watercolors, Tyrus created the iconic backgrounds of Bambi.\"-- Publisher's description.
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Chiang Yee
A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few words of the English language. Yet, two years later he writes a successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade publishes more than a dozen others. This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for theSilent Travellerseries--stories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australia--all written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style.
This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary accomplishments. It also embraces the transatlantic life experience of Yee who traveled from China to England and then on to the United States, where he taught at Columbia University, to his return to China in 1975, after a forty-two year absence. Interwoven is the history of the communist revolution in China; the battle to save England during World War II; the United States during the McCarthy red scare era; and, eventually, thawing Sino-American relations in the 1970s. Da Zheng uncovers Yee's encounters with racial exclusion and immigration laws, displacement, exile, and the pain and losses he endured hidden behind a popular public image.
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A thousand miles of dreams
A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths in their quests to be independent women. Ling Shuhao arrived in Cleveland in 1925 to study medicine in the middle of a U.S. crackdown on Chinese immigrant communities, and her effort to assimilate began. She became an American named Amy, while her sister Ling Shuhua burst onto the Beijing literary scene as a writer of short fiction. Shuhua's tumultuous affair with Virginia Woolf's nephew during his years in China eventually drew her into the orbit of the Bloomsbury group. The sisters were Chinese \"modern girls\" who sought to forge their own way in an era of social revolution that unsettled relations between men and women and among nations. Daughters of an imperial scholar-official and a concubine, they followed trajectories unimaginable to their parents' generation.
Biographer Sasha Su-Ling Welland stumbled across their remarkable stories while recording her grandmother's oral history. She discovered the secret Amy had jealously hidden from family in the United States—her sister's fame as a Chinese woman writer—as well as intriguing discrepancies between the sisters' versions of the past. Shaped by the social history of their day, the journeys of these extraordinary women spanned the twentieth century and three continents in a saga of East-West cultural exchange and personal struggle.
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(RE)WRITING CONTEMPORARY CANTONESE HERITAGE LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY
Debuting in 2001, Cantonese-English bilingual rapper Jin Au-Yeung, better known as MC Jin, has been a longstanding figure in the Asian American hip-hop community. His professional and personal journey has taken him from his birthplace of Miami to Hong Kong, where he became a household name, to New York, where he currently resides with his wife and young son. Some have viewed Jin and his language use through the deficit lens of his incomplete Cantonese language acquisition. We argue, however, that his so-called “kitchen language,” or the perceived reduction of his linguistic productive domain to merely household objects and phrases, as well as his “return home” to Hong Kong, are actually poignant heuristics to literally and interactionally perform transnational Chinese American identity and masculinity across time and space. Through examining the songs from Jin’s 2007 album, ABC, we discuss the various tropes Jin utilizes to stake claims on and narrate authenticity relating to the Hong Kong Cantonese (American) experience. Viewing Jin’s lyrics and his collaborations with Asian American celebrities and hip-hop artists as auto/biographical texts, we discursively analyze his autonomy of self-expression and narration of identity through hip-hop. We also discuss the ways these narratives map onto larger discourses of Asian American identities. Ultimately, we argue that Jin is a pioneering mediator who reconfigures modern geographies of Asia/Asian America by (re)writing what it means to be a contemporary heritage speaker of Cantonese, providing new and powerful resonances to bilingual prose and expression.
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Maya Lin : a strong clear vision
The Academy Award-winning documentary is about sculptor and architect Maya Lin who, at age 21, designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The film tells the gripping story behind the Vietnam Memorial and explores a decade of her creative work. Maya Lin's design of the Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, and the Juniata Peace Chapel reveals her ability to address major issues of our times through the healing power of art.
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Tiger Writing and Other Essays
Gish Jen’s stature as a public intellectual is evidenced through her many essays, opinion pieces, interviews, and public lectures, some of which have been published in such esteemed national media venues as theNew York Times, theNew Republic, theBoston Globe, NPR, Time Asia, andSlate. Writing about topics as diverse as the bowdlerized version ofThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(Jen is not in favor of expurgating the infamous “n” word), the impact of Linsanity for Asian American youths, and a moving tribute to Steve Jobs that chronicles her evolution as a writer through her adoption of the
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