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Author | : Lloyd Suh |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0822239906 |
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Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S. soil, she has been put on display for the American public as “The Chinese Lady.” For the next half-century, she performs for curious white people, showing them how she eats, what she wears, and the highlight of the event: how she walks with bound feet. As the decades wear on, her celebrated sideshow comes to define and challenge her very sense of identity. Inspired by the true story of Afong Moy’s life, THE CHINESE LADY is a dark, poetic, yet whimsical portrait of America through the eyes of a young Chinese woman.
Author | : Nancy E. Davis |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0197581986 |
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In 1834, a Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America as both a prized guest and an advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional curiosity with bound feet and a celebrity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. This first biography of Afong Moy explores how she shaped Americans' impressions of China, while living as a stranger in a foreign land.
Author | : Pun Ngai |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2005-04-05 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0822386755 |
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As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws dictating that those born in the countryside cannot permanently leave their villages, and familial pressure for young women to marry by their late twenties, the dagongmei are transient labor. They undertake physically exhausting work in urban factories for an average of four or five years before returning home. The young women are not coerced to work in the factories; they know about the twelve-hour shifts and the hardships of industrial labor. Yet they are still eager to leave home. Made in China is a compelling look at the lives of these women, workers caught between the competing demands of global capitalism, the socialist state, and the patriarchal family. Pun Ngai conducted ethnographic work at an electronics factory in southern China’s Guangdong province, in the Shenzhen special economic zone where foreign-owned factories are proliferating. For eight months she slept in the employee dormitories and worked on the shop floor alongside the women whose lives she chronicles. Pun illuminates the workers’ perspectives and experiences, describing the lure of consumer desire and especially the minutiae of factory life. She looks at acts of resistance and transgression in the workplace, positing that the chronic pains—such as backaches and headaches—that many of the women experience are as indicative of resistance to oppressive working conditions as they are of defeat. Pun suggests that a silent social revolution is underway in China and that these young migrant workers are its agents.
Author | : Margaret Ernestine Burton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elizabeth Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 1926 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Zhao Ban |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Etiquette |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Elizabeth Cooper |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Margaret MacLean |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Lady Hosie |
Publisher | : London : Hodder and Stoughton |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1930 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Li Yu-ning |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2015-07-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1317474708 |
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The special focus of this book is the lives and experiences of women in China in the first half of the 20th century. Part One - Historical Interpretations - presents essays by Western-educated Chinese women and men, on the historical role of women in a time of great social and economic upheaval. Part Two - Self-Portraits of Women in Modern China - presents the views of women who experienced life in this period through essays and autobiographies that range from women as concubines to women as factory workers, from women suffering footbinding to women serving as nurses, from women in traditional role in a traditional family to women as scientists and teachers.