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Chiang Yee : the silent traveller from the East : a cultural biography / / Da Zheng ; foreword by Arthur C. Danto



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Autore: Zheng Da <1953-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Chiang Yee : the silent traveller from the East : a cultural biography / / Da Zheng ; foreword by Arthur C. Danto Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, 2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (359 p.)
Disciplina: 920.0092951073
Soggetto topico: Chinese American authors
Chinese American artists
Chinese - United States
Chinese - England
Asian diaspora
Chinese in literature
Exiles' writings, English - History and criticism
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
Soggetto geografico: China In literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD. Chiang Yee As I Knew Him -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON ROMANIZATION -- 1. Chinese Childhood -- 2. Revolutionary Era -- 3. Civil Servant -- 4. No Longer in Need of a Bench -- 5. “Another C. Y.” -- 6. “The Thing Has Come at Last” -- 7. “My Own World” -- 8. Oxford Years -- 9. “My English Christmas” -- 10. To America -- 11. Americanized -- 12. “Invisible Pains” -- 13. Home -- 14. Family and Love -- 15. China Revisited -- 16. Homeward Bound -- Notes -- Primary Sources -- Writings by Chiang Yee -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: A young man arrives in England in the 1930's, knowing few words of the English language. Yet, two years later he writes a successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade publishes more than a dozen others. This is the true story of Chiang Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for the Silent Traveller series--stories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan, and Australia--all written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and enlightening literary style. This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary accomplishments. It also embraces the transatlantic life experience of Yee who traveled from China to England and then on to the United States, where he taught at Columbia University, to his return to China in 1975, after a forty-two year absence. Interwoven is the history of the communist revolution in China; the battle to save England during World War II; the United States during the McCarthy red scare era; and, eventually, thawing Sino-American relations in the 1970's. Da Zheng uncovers Yee's encounters with racial exclusion and immigration laws, displacement, exile, and the pain and losses he endured hidden behind a popular public image.
Titolo autorizzato: Chiang Yee  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8135-4927-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817013303321
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