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Land without ghosts : Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present translated and edited by R. David Arkush and Leo O. Lee
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 183.8.C6 L36 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Description and travel--United States--History.
- Chinese.
- Public opinion--China--History.
- Public opinion.
- United States--Foreign public opinion, Chinese--History.
- United States.
- United States--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c1989.
- Contents:
- Foreword / John K. Fairbank
- George Washington and the American political system / Xu Jiyu
- Trains and treaties / Zhigang
- Strange customs / Zhang Deyi
- Glimpses of a modern society / Li Gui
- Travel in the interior / Chen Lanbin
- How to cope with Western dinner parties / Cai Jun
- Two poems / Huang Zunxian
- Chinese in America / Zhang Yinhuan
- Translator's notes to Uncle Tom's cabin / Lin Shu
- The power and threat of America / Liang Qichao
- Report of an investigation of American education / Huang Yanpei
- The American woman / Hu Shi
- The contradictory American character / Tang Hualong
- "Things about America and Americans" / Xu Zhengkeng
- Presidential elections / Li Gongpu
- The American family : individualism, material wealth, and pleasure-seeking / "Gongwang"
- Alabama : reds and Blacks / Zou Taofen.
- Impressions on reaching America / Lin Yutang
- Burlesque / George Kao
- The shallowness of cultural tradition / Fei Xiaotong
- Some judgments about America / Xiao Qian
- Betty : a portrait of loneliness / Yang Gang
- A day in the country / Du Hengzhi
- Americans' lack of personal style / Yin Haiguang
- Black ghost / Yu Guangzhong
- Eating in America / Cai Nengying, Luo Lan, and Liang Shiqiu
- A family Christmas / "Jiejun"
- America, America / Zhang Beihai
- A glimpse of America / Wang Ruoshui
- Working students / Xiao Qian
- America revisited / Fei Xiaotong
- I do not regret visiting New York / Zhang Jie
- America, spacious yet confining / Liu Binyan
- Six don'ts for Chinese students in America / Wang Yuzhong
- Private ownership and public ownership / Li Shaomin.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-309).
- ISBN:
- 0520062566
- OCLC:
- 18560904
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