The Lives of Chang and Eng - 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 Lives of Chang and Eng write by Joseph Andrew Orser. This book was released on 2014-11-03. The Lives of Chang and Eng available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Connected at the chest by a band of flesh, Chang and Eng Bunker toured the United States and the world from the 1820s to the 1870s, placing themselves and their extraordinary bodies on exhibit as "freaks of nature" and "Oriental curiosities." More famously known as the Siamese twins, they eventually settled in rural North Carolina, married two white sisters, became slave owners, and fathered twenty-one children between them. Though the brothers constantly professed their normality, they occupied a strange space in nineteenth-century America. They spoke English, attended church, became American citizens, and backed the Confederacy during the Civil War. Yet in life and death, the brothers were seen by most Americans as "monstrosities," an affront they were unable to escape. Joseph Andrew Orser chronicles the twins' history, their sometimes raucous journey through antebellum America, their domestic lives in North Carolina, and what their fame revealed about the changing racial and cultural landscape of the United States. More than a biography of the twins, the result is a study of nineteenth-century American culture and society through the prism of Chang and Eng that reveals how Americans projected onto the twins their own hopes and fears.
Inseparable
Inseparable - 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 Inseparable write by Yunte Huang. This book was released on 2018-04-03. Inseparable available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring “entertainment” to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry; their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children; and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the “other”—a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.
Chang and Eng Reconnected
Chang and Eng Reconnected - 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 Chang and Eng Reconnected write by Cynthia Wu. This book was released on 2012. Chang and Eng Reconnected available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considering Chang and Eng's body in America from the nineteenth century to the present
Mobituaries
Mobituaries - 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 Mobituaries write by Mo Rocca. This book was released on 2021-11-02. Mobituaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From popular TV correspondent and writer Rocca comes a charmingly irreverent and rigorously researched book that celebrates the dead people who made life worth living.
Wild Swans
Wild Swans - 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 Wild Swans write by Jung Chang. This book was released on 2008-06-20. Wild Swans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
