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Land without ghosts - Chinese impressions of America from the mid-nineteenth century to the present
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arkush, R. David, 1940- Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chinese--Travel--United States.
- Chinese.
- Public opinion--History--China.
- Public opinion.
- Public opinion--China--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] University of California Press 1993
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 years. Included are extracts from the travel diaries of nineteenth-century diplomats, a first-hand account of blacks in 1930s Alabama and of the young white Communists working to organize them.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. EXOTIC AMERICA
- George Washington and the American Political System
- Trains and Treaties
- Strange Customs
- Glimpses of a Modern Society
- Travel in the Interior
- How to Cope with Western Dinner Parties
- II. MENACING AMERICA
- Two Poems
- Chinese in America
- Translator's Notes to Uncle Tom's Cabin
- The Power and Threat of America
- III. MODEL AMERICA
- Report of an Investigation of American Education
- The American Woman
- The Contradictory American Character
- "Things About America and Americans"
- Presidential Elections
- IV. FLAWED AMERICA
- The American Family: Individualismi Material Wealth, and Pleasure-Seeking
- Alabama: Reds and Blacks
- Impressions on Reaching America
- Burlesque
- The Shallowness of Cultural Tradition
- Some Judgments About America
- Betty: A Portrait of Loneliness
- V. FAMILIAR AMERICA: THE VIEW FROM TAIWAN
- A Day in the Country
- Americans' Lack of Personal Style
- Black Ghost
- Eating in America
- A Family Christmas
- America, America
- VI. AMERICA REDISCOVERED: TRAVELERS FROM THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC
- Cold War Denunciations
- A Glimpse of America
- Working Students
- America Revisited
- I Do Not Regret Visiting New York
- America, Spacious Yet Confining
- Six Don'ts for Chinese Students in America
- Private Ownership and Public Ownership
- Afterword
- Source Notes
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-520-91440-6
- 0-585-06986-7
- OCLC:
- 1414457026
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