Download or read book From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream written by Anna Chao Pai and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 1221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While most immigrants to the United States seek better lives than what they had, author Anna Chao Pai’s parents came seeking safety from the Japanese; they left a life of luxury and power to become ordinary American citizens. In the end, the transition to ordinary was traumatic for Pai’s mother, who became mentally unbalanced. In From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream, Pai shares her story which is as much about her mother as it is about her. Pai was four years old when her family came to America from China, forced to flee because of war. She tells how they moved almost once a year, experiencing discrimination against Asians during World Word II, and attended twelve different schools before starting college. While her father and her siblings adjusted, despite racism against Asians, Pai’s mother, unable to learn the language, never assimilated into American life. From Manchurian Princess to the American Dream offers a look at modern Chinese history and culture. It provides insight into the impact of immigration on people who are ripped from their homes and find themselves beginning life in a foreign country where they must learn a new language and eventually lose all they left behind. Noting the courage it took for Pai’s parents to survive, this memoir is a testament to them and her family.
Download or read book Women and Their Warlords written by Kate Merkel-Hess and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the complex history and legacy of elite wives, concubines, and daughters of warlords in twentieth-century China. In Women and Their Warlords, historian Kate Merkel-Hess examines the lives and personalities of the female relatives of the military rulers who governed regions of China from 1916 to 1949. Posing for candid photographs and sitting for interviews, these women did not merely advance male rulers’ agendas. They advocated for social and political changes, gave voice to feminist ideas, and shaped how the public perceived them. As the first publicly political partners in modern China, the wives and concubines of Republican-era warlords changed how people viewed elite women’s engagement in politics. Drawing on popular media sources, including magazine profiles and gossip column items, Merkel-Hess draws unexpected connections between militarism, domestic life, and state power in this insightful new account of gender and authority in twentieth-century China.
Download or read book China s Grandmothers written by Diana Lary and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past century and a half, China has experienced foreign invasion, warfare, political turmoil, and revolution, along with massive economic and technological change. Through all this change, there is one stable element: grandmothers, as child carers, household managers, religious devotees, transmitters of culture, and, above all, sources of love, warmth, and affection. In this interdisciplinary and longitudinal study, China's Grandmothers sheds light on the status and lives of grandmothers in China over the years from the late Qing Dynasty to the twenty-first century. Combining a wide range of historical and biographical materials, Diana Lary explores the changes and continuities in the lives of grandmothers through revolution, wars, and radical upheaval to the present phase of economic growth. Informed by her own experience as a grandchild and grandmother, Lary offers a fresh and compelling way of looking at gender, family, and ageing in modern Chinese society.
Download or read book Never Alone written by James Wong and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fascinating true story of the struggles and successes of Jimmy June Wong and his family from the time his grandfather emigrated from China to America around 1860 to the present day. The story is based on numerous rare historical documents and photographs that depict racism, intolerance, ancient Chinese customs such as foot binding, and efforts to adapt to the American way of life.
Download or read book The Golden Mountain written by Irene Kai and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reliable phrasebook Essential words and phrases organized by topic: " Meeting people " Accommodations " Transportation " Food and drink " Shopping " Health " Sightseeing ... and more PLUS: " Easy-to-use pronunciation system " Easy-to-understand mini grammar " Alphabetically arranged dictionary
Download or read book My Mother s American Dream written by Shivani Chawla and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Mother's American Dream is a struggle portrayed! Dr. Shivani Chawla, the founder of Family Medicine Online, takes the reader on her journey toward establishing herself in her career as an Asian-American Woman in America. The book reflects on the challenges that arose along her way. She was only seven years old when she and her family arrived in the United States of America. It was new, different and intimidating!She recalls one day while sitting at the dinner table as her mother told her "you will be a doctor" to which her response was "okay". From that moment on she set her sights and energy into making that her reality. Though, it wasn't without it's struggles and obstacles. How many of us have a Dream? How many have come to America's shores to make their dream become a reality?Her story is a relatable one for those who have faced and are facing similar hardships. This book was written to highlight her journey to become a doctor as an immigrant without any knowledge on how to do it or what it takes. Challenged by the difficulties which arose in the process all the while trying to melt into this melting pot of a culture different than what she had been born into, she fought to win despite many failures. A success hidden within her struggles sends a message that anyone can accomplish this if she can. You too can find your American Dream!
Download or read book A Chance to Be Born written by K. C. Bertling and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspirational story of a very unhappy Korean child who grows up to marry an American soldier. Her struggles to survive in a new culture are outrageously funny and sometimes sad. Her failures and her successes are vividly written throughout her book. Her American patriotism and her strong belief in God inspires everybody who has met her.
Download or read book Patriot Number One written by Lauren Hilgers and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2018 BY New York Times Critics • Wall Street Journal • Kirkus Reviews Christian Science Monitor • San Francisco Chronicle Finalist for the PEN Jacqueline Bograd Weld Biography Award Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize The deeply reported story of one indelible family transplanted from rural China to New York City, forging a life between two worlds In 2014, in a snow-covered house in Flushing, Queens, a village revolutionary from Southern China considered his options. Zhuang Liehong was the son of a fisherman, the former owner of a small tea shop, and the spark that had sent his village into an uproar—pitting residents against a corrupt local government. Under the alias Patriot Number One, he had stoked a series of pro-democracy protests, hoping to change his home for the better. Instead, sensing an impending crackdown, Zhuang and his wife, Little Yan, left their infant son with relatives and traveled to America. With few contacts and only a shaky grasp of English, they had to start from scratch. In Patriot Number One, Hilgers follows this dauntless family through a world hidden in plain sight: a byzantine network of employment agencies and language schools, of underground asylum brokers and illegal dormitories that Flushing’s Chinese community relies on for survival. As the irrepressibly opinionated Zhuang and the more pragmatic Little Yan pursue legal status and struggle to reunite with their son, we also meet others piecing together a new life in Flushing. Tang, a democracy activist who was caught up in the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, is still dedicated to his cause after more than a decade in exile. Karen, a college graduate whose mother imagined a bold American life for her, works part-time in a nail salon as she attends vocational school, and refuses to look backward. With a novelist’s eye for character and detail, Hilgers captures the joys and indignities of building a life in a new country—and the stubborn allure of the American dream.
Download or read book I Am the American Dream written by Chu M. Tang and published by . This book was released on 2024-08-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't chase a dream. Become the Dream itself!"I Am the American Dream" is dedicated to all who courageously dare to DREAM, no matter where you are in the world. This book is about two immigrants who came to America from two distinct countries and share the same American Dream. We tell the stories of how we followed our childhood dreams from Cambodia and Hong Kong. Our paths finally crossed in America decades later. "Two souls, two journeys, till their paths crossed, becoming one life¿"We do not portray the American Dream as superior to any country's dream. We write about facing bullying, racism, discrimination, loss of hope, and family challenges between two cultures (Asian and American). We share how we chose the nontraditional path to breakthrough, thinking outside the box, maintaining a positive mindset, and embracing our differences. We moved to America for freedom and opportunities. We realized no one handed us the American Dream; we had to work hard for it. For over 45 years, we never gave up. Along our journey, we discovered one profound truth: the Dream isn't something you chase; we are the Dream!This unique blend of memoir, vivid imagery, and poetry is inspired by Chu's work in Oscar-winning films like The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, Finding Dory, and Coco. Each scene is crafted as a standalone short story, capturing a spectrum of emotions that will deeply resonate with you. A picture is worth a thousand words; this book is enriched by stunning original artwork illustrated by two talented New Zealand artists. You will ponder each illustration as if admiring a painting in a museum.Four generations' worth of stories, woven together, form the backbone of this book. The stories are a shocking yet heartwarming collection that showcases the growth and resilience of the human spirit and delivers hearty laughs along the way.This book is as real and raw as it gets. We hope you will be curious to open it and ready to be inspired :).
Download or read book My American Dream With A Side of Beef Noodle Soup written by Lisa Chen Mellinger and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-12-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smell of beef noodle soup prompts Tu Hong Lang (Helen) to share her childhood memories of running in her grandparents' home, where they lived as extravagant landlords over the rice fields. This is a recalling of food stories, family heartache, deep grief, and cultural conflicts in the midst of chasing the American dream. During the devastating transition from imperial China to Communist China, Helen's family escapes to Taiwan where she ends up graduating from college and enjoying the attention of many suitors before falling in love and moving to America. She and her husband chase the American dream, but it always seems to be out of reach. Between stories, Helen's daughter, shares her own memories of food that bonded the families together.
Download or read book Mei Guo Meng written by Kristy Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a first generation Asian American girl Miuki who wants to be who her parents want her to be while fighting to be who she feels like she is. She is fighting trying to balance being a good student and daughter for her parents and being an American girl. Miuki wants to figure out how to do both. As her senior prom approaches she asks her parents if she can attend knowing they would say no, they did. She is heartbroken that she can't to one of the most American things a teenager does. She tries to reason with her parents, telling them what a good student she is and that she has not let go of her roots, while explaining to them that they brought her to America for the American Dream that they are not letting her live. In the end her parents bring prom to her. She dances, has a date and realizes that it is difficult for parents of other countries to let their children grow into individuals in a place that is not hope, but realize that compromise is universal.
Download or read book Mayling Soong Chiang written by Priscilla B. Stowe and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Manchurian American written by Yupin Wang and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchurian American is the personal tale of Yupin Wang, who was born in Northeast China (Manchuria) in the 1930s. He is a witness to the Japanese invasion of China and brutal civil wars, an escapee to Taiwan, and an accidental American who came to the United States in the 1950s and made it. This is a poignant story of the human spirit triumphing over obstacles of nationality, race, and time. Manchurian American is about love, family, friendship, and gratitude for an adopted country. Wang's personal crusade in a new, bewildering land is as relevant today for him as it is for all Americans who live in a land of immigrants. From his first jobs on the boardwalk in Long Beach, Long Island, to his position as an executive with IBM, Yupin Wang brings wonder, frustration, and success to the story of his journey to become the Manchurian American. This story will appeal to a wide audience: Americans with immigrant roots, Americans who experienced war firsthand, baby boomers, and a younger generation seeking an explanation of the past. Both men and women will find it touching and engaging. Asians and new immigrants to America will find it inspiring.
Download or read book The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States Feature Films written by American Film Institute and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The American Dream written by Christopher Hu and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an 8th grader, the author Christopher Hu created an imaginary figure, Ed Venture, who is an American born Chinese that ventures out of his comfort zone to pursue his passion and dreams.
Download or read book Film Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year's releases in review, with necrologies and brief articles.
