The China Mystique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The China Mystique write by Karen J. Leong. This book was released on 2005-07-25. The China Mystique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China—Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong—Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.
The China Mystique
The China Mystique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The China Mystique write by Karen Janis Leong. This book was released on 1999. The China Mystique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The China Mystique
The China Mystique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The China Mystique write by Karen Janis Leong. This book was released on 1999. The China Mystique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Asian Mystique
The Asian Mystique - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Asian Mystique write by Sheridan Prasso. This book was released on 2009-04-29. The Asian Mystique available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Few Westerners escape the images, expectations and misperceptions that lead us to see Asia as exotic, sensual, decadent, dangerous, and mysterious. Despite - and because of centuries of East-West interaction, the stereotypes of Western literature, stage, and screen remain pervasive icons: the tea-pouring, submissive, sexually available geisha girl; the steely cold dragon lady dominatrix; as well as the portrayal of the Asian male as effeminate and asexual. These "Oriental" illusions color our relations and relationships in ways even well-respected professional "Asia hands" and scholars don't necessarily see.The Asian Mystique lays out a provocative challenge to see Asia and Asians as they really are, with unclouded, deeroticized eyes. It traces the origins of Western stereotypes in history and in Hollywood, examines the phenomenon of 'yellow fever,' then goes on a reality tour of Asia's go-go bars, middle-class homes, college campuses, business districts, and corridors of power, providing intimate profiles of women's lives and vivid portraits of the human side of an Asia we usually mythologize too well to really understand. It strips away our misconceptions and stereotypes, revealing instead the fully dimensional human beings beyond our usual perceptions. The Asian Mystique is required reading for anyone with interest in or interaction with Asia or Asian-origin people, as well as any serious student or practitioner of East-West relations.
The Mystique of Transmission
The Mystique of Transmission - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mystique of Transmission write by Wendi Leigh Adamek. This book was released on 2007. The Mystique of Transmission available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Adamek provides a reading of the late 8th century Chan/Zen Buddhist Lidai fabao ji (Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations) and provides its first English translation. The work combines a history of the transmission of Buddhism and Chan in China with an account of the 8th century Chan master Wuzhu in Sichuan.
