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American life : a Chinese historian's perspective / Cho-yun Hsu ; translated by Carissa Fletcher.
Van Pelt - New Book Display E184.C5 H78 2021
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- Author/Creator:
- Xu, Zhuoyun, 1930-2025, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Meiguo liu shi nian cang sang. English
- 美國六十年滄桑. English
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--History.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Politics and government.
- United States--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Chinese Americans--Biography.
- Chinese Americans.
- Genre:
- History.
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 343 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "The United States is the land where Cho-yun Hsu pursued his life's work, as well as his window to observations of Western civilization; through his eyes, the nation is revealed as both a mighty empire and a grand social laboratory containing the seeds of prosperity and decline. In this memoir of his sixty-year sojourn in the United States, Cho-yun Hsu offers keen insights through the lens of history and sociology, providing a comprehensive assessment of the social lineaments of the United States in different eras, as well as its substantive transformation in the period spanning from the founding of the nation to the present--from a young nation of lofty ideals, to the successor to Europe as global hegemon, and, more recently, an emerging regime of tyranny. The work touches upon geography, culture, politics, economics, industrialization, class, ethnicity, the urban-rural divide, military affairs, the imperial enterprise and more in analyzing the origins of tension and conflict, antagonism and divisions between different classes and ethnic groups in American society, and seeks to offer a way forward from a humanistic perspective, in the hope that society may be continuously renewed through our collective efforts, and find a new path." --Amazon.com.
- Contents:
- I. My First Impressions of the US
- II. The Expansion of the American Frontier
- III. Evolution of the Forms of Agriculture
- IV. The Industrialization of the US
- V. Ethnic Diversity and Social Problems (Part I)
- VI. Ethnic Diversity and Social Problems (Part II)
- VII. The Operation of the American Economy
- VIII. The Urban-Rural Divide and Class Alienation (Part I)
- IX. The Urban-Rural Divide and Class Alienation (Part II)
- X. The American Political System
- XI. The Cultural Veins of American Development
- XII. Tides of Cultural Change
- XIII. The Search for Meaning
- XIV. An Unfinished Empire and Corrupted Capitalism.
- Notes:
- Translation of: Meiguo liu shi nian cang sang : yi ge Hua ren de jian wen.
- Translated from the Chinese.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles D. Dickey, Jr., Fund.
- Other Edition:
- Translation of: 9789570852943 Xu, Zhuoyun, 1930- Xinbei Shi : Lian jing chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2019
- ISBN:
- 9789882372108
- 9882372104
- OCLC:
- 1225287718
- Publisher Number:
- 99988528587
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