LEADER 03629oam 22005174a 450 001 9910794503203321 005 20230901155756.0 010 $a988-237-869-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000012007984 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6709851 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6709851 035 $a(OCoLC)1285151992 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_94095 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000012007984 100 $a20210826d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAmerican Life$eA History of America Through the Eyes of a Chinese Historian 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$cChinese University Hong Kong Press,$a[S.l.] :$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (368 pages) 311 $a988-237-210-4 327 $aHalf title page -- Full title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the English Edition -- Acknowledgements -- 1. My First Impressions of the US -- 2. The Expansion of the American Frontier -- 3. Evolution of the Forms of Agriculture -- 4. The Industrialization of the US -- 5. Ethnic Diversity and Social Problems (Part I) -- 6. Ethnic Diversity and Social Problems (Part II) -- 7. The Operation of the American Economy -- 8. The Urban-Rural Divide and Class Alienation (Part I) -- 9. The Urban-Rural Divide and Class Alienation (Part II) -- 10. The American Political System -- 11. The Cultural Veins of American Development -- 12. Tides of Cultural Change -- 13. The Search for Meaning -- 14. An Unfinished Empire and Corrupted Capitalism -- 15. Lingering Thoughts and a Message for China's Future. 330 $a"The United States is the land where Cho-yun Hsu pursued his life's work, as well as his window to observations of Western civilization; through his eyes, the nation is revealed as both a mighty empire and a grand social laboratory containing the seeds of prosperity and decline. In this memoir of his sixty-year sojourn in the United States, Cho-yun Hsu offers keen insights through the lens of history and sociology, providing a comprehensive assessment of the social lineaments of the United States in different eras, as well as its substantive transformation in the period spanning from the founding of the nation to the present--from a young nation of lofty ideals, to the successor to Europe as global hegemon, and, more recently, an emerging regime of tyranny. The work touches upon geography, culture, politics, economics, industrialization, class, ethnicity, the urban-rural divide, military affairs, the imperial enterprise and more in analyzing the origins of tension and conflict, antagonism and divisions between different classes and ethnic groups in American society, and seeks to offer a way forward from a humanistic perspective, in the hope that society may be continuously renewed through our collective efforts, and find a new path." --Amazon.com. 606 $aSocial conditions$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01919811 606 $aPolitics and government$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01919741 606 $aChinese$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00857169 606 $aChinese$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$2fast 607 $aUnited States$xSocial conditions 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 7$aSocial conditions. 615 7$aPolitics and government. 615 7$aChinese. 615 0$aChinese 676 $a973.04951 700 $aXu$b Zhuoyun$f1930-$01490485 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794503203321 996 $aAmerican Life$93711894 997 $aUNINA