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In the first book to focus on African-American attitudes toward Japan and China, Marc Gallicchio examines the rise and fall of black internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century. This daring new approach to world politics failed in its effort to seek solidarity with the two Asian countries, but it succeeded in rallying black Americans in the struggle for civil rights. Black internationalism emphasised the role of race or colour in world politics and linked the domestic struggle of African-Americans with the freedom struggle of emerging nations 'of colour', such as India and much of Africa. In the early twentieth century, black internationalists, including W. E. B. Du Bois and Marcus Garvey, embraced Japan as a potential champion of the darker races, despite Japan's imperialism in China. After Pearl Harbor, black internationalists reversed their position and identified Nationalist China as an ally in the war against racism. In the end, black internationalism was unsuccessful as an interpretation of international affairs. The failed quest for alliances with Japan and China, Gallicchio argues, foreshadowed the difficulty black Americans would encounter in seeking redress for American racism in the international arena. (For this item please quote stock ID 7244) ISBN: 9780807848678

This a further volume in the Australia in Asia series. (For this item please quote stock ID 22549) ISBN: 9780195536720

Professor Metzger?s third seminal book, A Cloud Across the Pacific uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China?s complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It describes and puts into critical context three versions of Western liberalism (those of F.A. Hayek, John Rawls, and John Dunn), three versions of Chinese liberalism (those of Yang Kuo-shu, Li Qiang, and Ambrose Y.C. King), two versions of modern Confucian humanism (those of T?ang Chün-i, and Henry K.H. Woo), and various versions of Chinese Marxism, including Kao Li-k?o?s in the early 1990s and some of the recent New Left writings. The book shows that all these Chinese political theories, not only Chinese Marxism, depend on a number of premises at odds with Western liberalism, especially epistemological optimism and an extravagantly optimistic concept of political practicability. It also argues that not only these Chinese theories but also Western liberalism have failed to offer adequate normative guidelines for the improvement of political life. His study uniquely combines a deep understanding of the history of Chinese thought with a strong grasp of modern philosophical trends and an innovative methodology for the description and criticism of political theories. It will be useful to students of modern Chinese intellectual history, of political philosophy, of political culture, of the comparative study of cultures, and of U.S.-Chinese relations. 'A Cloud Across the Pacific is a very important and seminal piece of scholarship ... Metzger?s comparative study of contemporary Chinese and Western political theories led him to a trailblazing discovery of a crucial aspect of modern Chinese thought, what he calls epistemological optimism ... Another contribution of his manuscript lies in its novel and refreshing conception of political theory ... Developing this concept, he came up with a string of brilliant, daring ideas that challenge some of the conventional wisdom in the field of political philosophy' - Chang Hao Thomas A. Metzger is a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and professor emeritus of the University of California, San Diego and has held visiting professorships at National Taiwan Normal University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, East China Normal University, Wuhan University, Peking University, and the Chinese Academy of Social Science. In 1994 he gave the annual Ch?ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture at New Asia College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; in 2001 he was appointed advisor to the Department of History, Tsinghua University; and in 2003 he gave the inaugural lecture in a series of annual lectures honoring T?ang Chün-i and instituted by The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was born in Berlin, Germany in 1933 and received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1967. (For this item please quote stock ID 23224) ISBN: 9789629961220

Australia's China explores the multifaceted and dynamic Australian encounter with China from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 to the present. This relationship, which was variously enriching, baffling and antagonistic, is traced through official papers, literature, film and interviews. Both popular and official reactions to China are examined, highlighting aspects of Australian identity and self-image. The competing and shifting perceptions of China also reflect the broader East-West encounter. Contents: >Introduction Part I. 1941?1949: >1. The rise & fall of our valiant ally >2. The den of iniquity >3. Lepers, madmen & demons >4. Keeping China at bay Part II. 1950?1989: >5. The Chinese anti-utopia >6. The dread frontier >7. The Chinese paradise >8. An alternative new China >9. The den of iniquity revisited >10. Reckoning with China >Conclusion. (For this item please quote stock ID 12978) ISBN: 9780521484978

A huge hit when it was first published in China, this Chinese best-seller is now available in English. This cautionary tale of a Chinese immigrant family follows their expectation for a prosperous life in The Beautiful Country. Almost immediately their dreams clash with the reality of long work weeks, poor housing, lonely days and homesickness. As material success comes, the family must pay a high price for their wealth as their daughter becomes addicted to drugs and involved with gangs. (For this item please quote stock ID 4818) ISBN: 9780835125260

On October 11-17, 1997, China's 'Second Conference on Intercultural Communication' was held in Beijing. This collection of 32 conference papers highlight the following: >Theoretical considerations >Language & culture >Cultural differences in discourse & communicative style >International business & organisation >Value differences >English as an international language >Intercultural communication publications, etc. (For this item please quote stock ID 15749) ISBN: 9787560017822

By the mid-nineteenth century political and editorial cartoons had become an integral part of American newspapers and magazines. Early Chinese immigrants, who played an important role in the development of America's West beginning with the 1848 Gold Rush, were depicted in a number of nineteenth century illustrations and cartoons. The Coming Man, borrowing its title from a series illustrating Chinese immigrants published by Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper in 1870, includes 116 pictorials that vividly reveal the perception and treatment of Chinese by mainstream white America, selected from American newspapers and magazines dating from 1869 to 1900. The majority were printed in widely circulated national publications such as Harper's Weekly and Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, or regional magazines such as The Wasp (San Francisco) and Puck (New York). Some were drawn by famous artists such as G. Frederick Keller, J. Langstruth, and Thomas Nast. The selection offers the reader an opportunity to turn back the pages of history and experience the hostility and tension during the Chinese exclusion era. It also reveals the racist atmosphere of the nineteenth century, a legacy we have yet to resolve in twentieth-century America. (For this item please quote stock ID 19733) ISBN: 9789620411946

McDonald?s restaurants are found in over 100 countries, serving tens of millions of people each day. What are the cultural implications of this phenomenal success? Does it presage a homogeneous, global culture? This engaging book confronts these questions and more, using theories and techniques of anthropology. (For this item please quote stock ID 22909) ISBN: 9780804749893

~In a groundbreaking work of 'New Americanist' studies, John Eperjesi explores the cultural and economic formation of the Unites States relationship to China and the Pacific Rim in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Eperjesi examines a variety of texts to explore the emergence of what Rob Wilson has termed the 'American Pacific.'

~Eperjesi shows how works ranging from Frank Norris? The Octopus to the Journal of the American Asiatic Association, from the Socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason to the travel writings of Jack and Charmain London, and from Maxine Hong Kingston?s China Men to Ang Lee?s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ? and the cultural dynamics that produced them ? helped construct the myth of the American Pacific. By construing the Pacific Rim as a unified region binding together the territorial United States with the areas of Asia and the Pacific, he also demonstrates that the logic of the imperialist imaginary suggested it was not only proper but even incumbent upon the United States to exercise both political and economic influence in the region.

~As Donald Pease notes in his foreword, 'by reading foreign policy and economic policy as literature, and by reconceptualising works of American literature as extenuations of foreign policy and economic theory,' Eperjesi makes a significant contribution to studies of American imperialism.

~John Eperjesi is a post-doctoral fellow in the English Department at Carnegie Mellon University. (For this item please quote stock ID 23528) ISBN: 9781584654353

In 101 Stories for foreigners to Understand Chinese People,Yi and Bryan Ellis tell stories about their experiences living in China to introduce elements of Chinese culture,etiquette and interpersonal interaction. When they moved from New York City to Shanghai three years ago, they read several guide books and thought they were prepared. But dozens of small yet significant cultural differences caught them by surprise! Three years (and numerous faux pas, misunderstandings and misinterpretations) later, they have written this book to help readers benefit from their experiences. Their stories explain both the "what's" and the "why's" of Chinese customs, so that readers can better understand and appreciate the Chinese way of thinking and living. Often,what seems bizarre and strange at first makes perfect sense if you see it from a Chinese perspective. Yi and Bryan have enjoyed learning about Chinese culture and hope that the readers will enjoy this journey of discovery as well. (For this item please quote stock ID 28958) ISBN: 9787538281095

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'Informative, well-written and interesting to anyone concerned with one person's look at individuals in a trying situation. Kwan's experiences are interesting to those who are familiar with as well as those who want to learn about modern China.' - Committee on Women in Asian Studies. Poignant account of a teacher's relationship with his students in Beijing (1988-89). (For this item please quote stock ID 9047) ISBN: 9780835123815

The United States and China have shared a fascinating though, at times, mercurial relationship, combining increasing trade and cultural ties with occasional - often unsettling - superpower threats. Shouhua Qi?s collection of original essays - reflecting his personal cross cultural journey over the past decade - provides a fresh reassessment of the search for meaning in U.S.-China cultural ties in the post-Tiananmen era. Qi, a professor of English living in the U.S., offers a unique, timely perspective on matters political, personal, scholarly, and humorous. With such outrageous and poignant topics as presidential sex scandals, the furore over the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and a visit to his father?s grave, Qi?s essays teach as much about cross-cultural similarities as they do about overcoming difficulties. Bridging the Pacific is ideal for those interested in a greater understanding of the on-going U.S.-China cultural relationship. (For this item please quote stock ID 12673) ISBN: 9780835126755

While teaching English as a foreign expert at Peking University, the author grew to understand the lives and views of his students in a most profound way. In this chronicle of his time in China, the author features original essays written by his students for his class, offering keen insights into the minds of China?s brightest students. Extremely candid discussions of social issues, and the meaning of love, supported by the illuminating observations of a supportive and encouraging teacher, prove that understanding earned in a classroom is not limited to that of the students. Dr. Anthony Gallagher worked for the Australian government in Canberra before he decided to pursue a dream of teaching English to Chinese students at Peking University. The publication of this book coincides with and commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the founding of Peking University. Some words from the author . . . For an unexpected reason, I'm very glad I wrote this book. I didn't think of this important reason at all at the time of writing, so I need to explain. My book becomes available at a time of misplaced hope - hope that resurrecting the 'good old days' will bring economic salvation. It is also a time when misunderstandings of Asian Australians are rife. In this difficult social climate, perhaps some simple words and stories from my Chinese students can help break down walls of prejudice. I hasten to add that this is not a 'heavy' book, far from it. It's a joyful book. The setting is daily life on campus at China's prestigious Peking University, where I was an English teacher from 1994 to 1997. During class I was always urging my students to write, and they eagerly did so, on a multitude of topics. Their writings were refreshingly honest and direct; they had a knack of combining English words in unexpected and delightful ways. In addition, they told me much about their private lives. Although in customs and attitudes they were distinctly Chinese, in feelings they were like Aussie undergraduates. No. More than that. They were just like us. So, I took the best of their marvellous prose and turned it into a story about Chinese students today and their lives, their families, their views of sex and love, their fears and hopes, both for China and for their future. It's my story also, as the students became my 'windows' into China. Through them I came to understand what it meant to be Chinese. I found China to be a completely different world. By that I mean it was not at all what I expected - most of my Australian-based assumptions were unhelpful and false. Maybe, when you enjoy my book some of your preconceptions about the Chinese people will begin to fall away too and you see them as they really are. Our community needs more of this kind of exposure, don't you agree? After all, it's in our own self-interest to find out as much as we can about our Asian neighbours. Why? Well, we need to prepare for the future not the past. To do this effectively we have to shed comfortable but incomplete beliefs. About the Author Dr Tony Gallagher grew up in suburban Perth in the 1950s. He then taught in government country high schools in Western Australia in the late 1960s before moving to Canberra where he raised his family and worked as a public servant assisting in the expansion of Australian universities. Tony and his wife Annette now live in Perth. Tony's friendship with China and its people is longstanding. He is a member of the Australia-China Friendship Society and whilst in China he travelled extensively, writing regularly in the 'Australia-China Review' about his experiences. At Peking University he established an Australian Studies Centre and he is Permanent Adviser to the Centre. These days more and more Australians are going to China. Some are setting up businesses others are visitors, students or teachers. It is a time too when China is becoming much more important to us as a trading partner. So, Tony is interested in doing all he can to promote being better neighbours with China. (For this item please quote stock ID 13901) ISBN: 9780835126342

This book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic. 'The extensive and masterful command of Western philosophy, including the contemporary period, makes the book truly exciting instead of just another competent scholarly study. The bold insight of the authors is mountain air. The pure artistry of the writing rushes readers along until they are stopped by the shock of finding Hall and Ames saying exactly the right thing to illuminate important areas of cultural concern in at least four areas. The treatment of pre-Socratic philosophy is not just a rehash, but offers new insights (so much so that I thought of using it as a text in Ancient Philosophy class). The material on ancient China enriches what the authors began to do in Thinking Through Confucius. The assessments of differences between China and the West often render contemporary Western philosophers in new, illuminating perspective. Finally, the book contributes fundamentally, instead of anecdotally, to the enterprise of seeking to understand contemporary Asia. 'I have been looking for this book for twenty years. In reading postmodern philosophers, I have often written in the margins the observation that "this labored and over-wrought point is plain in Asian thinking." I generally wondered how it was that scholars of the stature and imagination of Paul Tillich or Richard Rorty could be so scintillating and intelligent and yet be embarrassingly ignorant of anything Asian. Hall and Ames are leaders in systematically articulating the connections that many of us have vaguely felt, and looked for, and thought obvious in one or another instance' - John Rothfork By providing parallel accounts of the contrasting developments of classical Chinese and Western traditions, Anticipating China offers a means of avoiding the implicit cultural biases which so often distort Western understanding of Chinese intellectual culture. The book shows that failure to assess the significant cultural differences between China and the West has seriously affected our understanding of both classical and contemporary China, and makes the translation of attitudes, concepts, and issues extremely problematic. (For this item please quote stock ID 22200) ISBN: 9780791424780

India, China, Australia: Trade & Society 1788?1850 brings new scholarship to the history of Australia and its relations with the rest of the world. This is the first comprehensive review of colonial Australia's relationship with India and China and its material culture. India, China, Australia are three societies not often juxtaposed, especially in the context of Australian colonial history. This book breaks new ground in exploring the trading and social links between Australia and India and China, and surveys their rich legacy of furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles and costume, fancy goods and curiosities in museums and private collections in New South Wales and Tasmania. India, China, Australia: Trade & Society 1788?1850 contains three major essays, six survey sections and many illustrations of previously unpublished artefacts and documents. (For this item please quote stock ID 21595)

Chinese American Transnationalism considers the many ways in which Chinese living in the United States during the exclusion era maintained ties with China through a constant interchange of people and economic resources, as well as political and cultural ideas. This book continues the exploration of the exclusion era begun in two previous volumes: Entry Denied, which examines the strategies that Chinese Americans used to protest, undermine, and circumvent the exclusion laws; and Claiming America, which traces the development of Chinese American ethnic identities. Taken together, the three volumes underscore the complexities of the Chinese immigrant experience and the ways in which its contexts changed over the 61 year period. Contents >1. Defying Exclusion: Chinese Immigrants & Their Strategies During the Exclusion Era (Erika Lee, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) >2. Trading with the Gold Mountain: Jinshanzhuang & Networks of Kinship & Native Place (Madeline Hsu, San Francisco State University) >3. Against All Odds: Chinese Female Migration & Family Formation on American Soil During the Early Twentieth Century (Sucheng Chan, University of California, Santa Barbara) >4. Chinese Herbalists in the United States (Haiming Liu, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona) >5. Understanding Chinese American Transnationalism During the Early Twentieth Century: An Economic Perspective (Yong Chen, University of California, Irvine) >6. Republicanism, Confucianism, Christianity, & Capitalism in Chinese American Ideology (Shehong Chen, University of Massachusetts, Lowell) >7. Teaching Chinese Americans to be Chinese: Curriculum, Teachers, & Textbooks in Chinese Schools in America During the Exclusion Era (Him Mark Lai, Chinese Historical Society of America) >Writing a Place in American Life: The Sensibilities of American-Born Chinese as Reflected in Life Stories from the Exclusion Era (Xiao-huang Yin, Occidental College) Sucheng Chan is Professor Emerita of Asian American Studies and Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and founding editor of the Asian American History and Culture series. She is the author or editor of numerous books, including three with Temple: Entry Denied, Claiming America, and Hmong Means Free. (For this item please quote stock ID 25162) ISBN: 9781592134359

In this companion volume to A White Man?s Province and The Oriental Question, Patricia E. Roy examines the climax of antipathy to Asians in Canada: the removal of all Japanese Canadians from the BC coast in 1942. Their free return was not allowed until 1949. Yet the war also brought increased respect for Chinese Canadians; they were enfranchised in 1947 and the federal government softened its ban on Chinese immigration. The Triumph of Citizenship explains why Canada ignored the rights of Japanese Canadians and placed strict limits on Chinese immigration. In response, Japanese Canadians and their supporters in the human rights movement managed to halt "repatriation" to Japan, and Chinese Canadians successfully lobbied for the same rights as other Canadians to sponsor immigrants. The final triumph of citizenship came in 1967, when immigration regulations were overhauled and the last remnants of discrimination removed. The Triumph of Citizenship reminds all Canadians of the values and limits of their citizenship; students of political history and of ethnic relations in particular will find this book compelling. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About the Author(s) Patricia E. Roy is a professor emerita of history at the University of Victoria and a member of the Royal Society of Canada. (For this item please quote stock ID 30262) ISBN: 9780774813815

'China' and 'the West,' 'us' and 'them,' the 'subject' and the 'non-subject' - these and other dualisms furnish China watchers, both inside and outside China, with a pervasive, ready-made set of definitions immune to empirical disproof. But what does this language of essential difference accomplish? The essays in this book are an attempt to cut short the recitation of differences and to answer this question. In six interpretive studies of China, the author examines the ways in which the networks of assumption and consensus that make communication possible within a discipline affect collective thinking about the object of study. Among other subjects, these essays offer a historical and historiographical introduction to the problem of comparison and deal with translation, religious proselytisation, semiotics, linguistics, cultural bilingualism, writing systems, the career of postmodernism in China, and the role of China as an imaginary model for postmodernity in the West. Against the reigning simplifications, these essays seek to restore the interpretation of China to the complexity and impurity of the historical situations in which it is always caught. The chief goal of the essays in this book is not to expose errors in interpreting China but to use these misunderstandings as a basis for devising better methodologies for comparative studies. (For this item please quote stock ID 18620) ISBN: 9780674008601

This is the third volume in the Australia in Asia series. This volume contains case studies on specific engagements or 'episodes' occurring in the interaction between Australia and societies in the Asian region. Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Asian Studies, and Australia's relationship with Asia, in faculties of arts, social sciences and business. (For this item please quote stock ID 10854) ISBN: 9780195536737

Now listed as 'out of print', this is a fascinating view of Asia and Australia's place in it. (For this item please quote stock ID 4691) ISBN: 9780195539219

'Yellowface details the theatrical and musical history of Chinese and Chinese American performance at a time when 'Asian American' identity was unheard of. It should be a welcome addition to Asian American Studies and American cultural history, as well as theatre and music history' - Josephine Lee, Performing Asian America: Race & Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage Music and performance provide a unique window into the ways that cultural information is circulated and perceptions are constructed. Because they both require listening, are inherently ephemeral, and most often involve collaboration between disparate groups, they inform cultural perceptions differently from literary or visual art forms, which tend to be more tangible and stable. In Yellowface, Krystyn Moon explores the contributions of writers, performers, producers, and consumers in order to demonstrate how popular music and performance has played an important role in constructing Chinese and Chinese American stereotypes. The book brings to life the rich musical period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time, Chinese and Chinese American musicians and performers appeared in a variety of venues, including museums, community theatres, and world's fairs, where they displayed their cultural heritage and contested anti-Chinese attitudes. A smaller number crossed over into vaudeville and performed non-Chinese materials. Moon shows how these performers carefully navigated between racist attitudes and their own artistic desires. While many scholars have studied both African American music and blackface minstrelsy, little attention has been given to Chinese and Chinese American music. This book provides a rare look at the way that immigrants actively participated in the creation, circulation, and, at times, subversion of Chinese stereotypes through their musical and performance work. Krystyn Moon is an assistant professor at Georgia State University, where she teaches U.S. cultural history and Asian American history. (For this item please quote stock ID 23526) ISBN: 9780813535074