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Book Synopsis Chinatown Paper Dolls by : Kwei-Lin Lum
Download or read book Chinatown Paper Dolls written by Kwei-Lin Lum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore many generations of Chinese-American history with this captivating collection of 5 paper dolls and 26 costumes for male and female dolls of all ages. Included are outfits for work, leisure, and formal occasions and a play scene on inside covers.
Book Synopsis Chinese Girl and Boy Paper Dolls by : Barbara Steadman
Download or read book Chinese Girl and Boy Paper Dolls written by Barbara Steadman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 32 traditional outfits include wedding apparel for a Manchu bride and groom, ornate costumes for the Peacock, a dance of the Dai people, wardrobe accents, and much more.
Book Synopsis Chinese Opera Costumes Paper Dolls by : Ming-Ju Sun
Download or read book Chinese Opera Costumes Paper Dolls written by Ming-Ju Sun and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Splendid collection of 2 figures and 16 dazzling costumes designed for traditional characters in Chinese opera. Lavishly embroidered robes, elegant headdresses, and painted faces for male and female characters.
Book Synopsis Chinese Girl and Boy Paper Dolls by : Barbara Steadman
Download or read book Chinese Girl and Boy Paper Dolls written by Barbara Steadman and published by . This book was released on 1996-10-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: traditional outfits--wedding apparel for a Manchu bride and groom, ornate costumes for the Peacock, a dance of the Dai people, wardrobe accents and much more.
Book Synopsis The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by : Heather B. Moore
Download or read book The Paper Daughters of Chinatown written by Heather B. Moore and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on true events, The Paper Daughters of Chinatown is a powerful story about a largely unknown chapter in history and the women who emerged as heroes. In the late nineteenth century, San Francisco is a booming city with a dark side, one where a powerful underground organization-the criminal tong-buys and sells young Chinese women into prostitution and slavery. These "paper daughters," so called because fake documents gain them entry to America but leave them without legal identity, generally have no recourse. But the Occidental Mission Home for Girls is one bright spot of hope and help. Told in alternating chapters, this rich narrative follows the stories of young Donaldina "Dolly" Cameron, who works in the mission home, and Mei Lien, a "paper daughter" who thinks she is coming to America for an arranged marriage but instead is sold into a life of shame and despair. Dolly, a real-life pioneering advocate for social justice, bravely fights corrupt officials and violent gangs, helping to win freedom for thousands of Chinese women. Mei Lien endures heartbreak and betrayal in her search for hope, belonging, and love. Their stories merge in this gripping account of the courage and determination that helped to shape a new course of women's history in America.
Book Synopsis Little Chinese Girl Paper Doll by : Tom Tierney
Download or read book Little Chinese Girl Paper Doll written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 1993-02-09 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dress this little miss from the Far East in 8 traditional full-color costumes, among them an unusual straw raincoat and hat; a long cheongsam, or Hong Kong sheath; a floor-length Tibetan bridal dress; a multi-layered garment worn by a cast member of the Peking opera, and 4 others.
Book Synopsis Mei-Mei from China Sticker Paper Doll by : Yuko Green
Download or read book Mei-Mei from China Sticker Paper Doll written by Yuko Green and published by Dover Publications. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children and anyone intrigued by Chinese culture will be delighted with this petite miss from the mainland. Little Mei-Mei can be dressed in a colorful peel-and-apply sticker wardrobe of traditional Chinese clothing that includes the authentic apparel of young Tibetan and Mongolian ladies, intricately embroidered trousers and jacket, elegant wear for attending functions at the royal court, and a New Year's costume. 28 full-color stickers.
Book Synopsis The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by : Heather B. Moore
Download or read book The Paper Daughters of Chinatown written by Heather B. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anna May Wong Paper Dolls written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrate the first Chinese-American Hollywood movie star! Anna May Wong made more than 60 motion pictures beginning back in the days of silent movies. Anna May was very fashion conscious, declared in 1934 to be "the best-dressed woman in the world." Illustrated by David Wolfe, this collection represents movie clothes and her own personal wardrobe to dress on three dolls. There are 25 costumes in all plus star bio. An extravagantly executed gem!
Download or read book The Love Wife written by Gish Jen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the massively talented, award-winning author of Thank You, Mr. Nixon comes “a big story ... about families and identity and race and the American Dream.... Jen’s most ambitious and emotionally ample work yet” (The New York Times). The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese heritage, his wife Blondie’s WASP background, and the various ethnic permutations of their adopted and biological children. Into this new American family comes a volatile new member. Her name is Lanlan. She is Carnegie’s Mainland Chinese relative, a tough, surprisingly lovely survivor of the Cultural Revolution, who comes courtesy of Carnegie’s mother’s will. Is Lanlan a very good nanny, a heartless climber, or a posthumous gift from a formidable mother who never stopped wanting her son to marry a nice Chinese girl? Rich in insight, buoyed by humor, The Love Wife is a hugely satisfying work.
Book Synopsis San Francisco's Chinatown by : Charles Caldwell Dobie
Download or read book San Francisco's Chinatown written by Charles Caldwell Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Paper Daughters of Chinatown by : Heather B. Moore
Download or read book The Paper Daughters of Chinatown written by Heather B. Moore and published by Shadow Mountain. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women in the most dangerous corners of San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1890s. When Tai Choi leaves her home in the Zhejiang province of China, she believes she'll be visiting her grandmother. But in truth, despite her mother's opposition, her father has sold her to pay his gambling debts. Alone and afraid, Tai Choi is put on a ship headed for San Francisco, known among the Chinese as Gold Mountain. When she arrives, she is forced to go by the new name listed on her paper documents: Tien Fu Wu. Her new life as a servant at a gambling den is hard. She is told to stay hidden, to stay silent, and to perform an endless list of chores, or else she will be punished. Tien Fu thinks her life couldn't get any worse, until she is sold again to an abusive shopkeeper and tasked to care for a young boy. If she is to survive, Tien Fu must persevere, and learn who to trust. When Dolly Cameron arrives in San Francisco to teach sewing at a mission home for orphaned Asian girls, she meets Tien Fu, who is willful, defiant, and unwilling to trust anyone. Dolly quickly learns that all the girls at the home were freed from lives of servitude and maltreatment. Dolly immediately joins the group of women dedicated to saving more of these "paper daughters" because some in authority have turned a blind eye to the situation. Despite many challenges, Dolly and Tien Fu forge a powerful friendship as they mentor and help those in the mission home and work to win the freedom of thousands of immigrant women and girls.
Download or read book China Dolls written by Lisa See and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1938 and the exclusive Oriental nightclub in San Francisco's Forbidden City is holding auditions for showgirls. In the dark, scandalous glamour of the club, three girls from very different backgrounds stumble into each other lives. All the girls have secrets. Grace, an American-born Chinese girl, has fled the Midwest and an abusive father. Helen is from a Chinese family which has deep roots in San Francisco's Chinatown. And, as both her friends know, Ruby is Japanese passing as Chinese. Then, in a heartbeat, everything changes. The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and paranoia, suspicion, and a shocking act of betrayal, threaten to destroy their lives.
Book Synopsis Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora by : Sharon K. Hom
Download or read book Chinese Women Traversing Diaspora written by Sharon K. Hom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume were born in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong; they have been immigrants, foreign students, settlers, permanent residents, citizens, and-above all-"travelers." They are both geographic inhabitants of various overseas diaspora Chinese communities as well as figurative inhabitants of imagined heterogeneous and hybrid communities. Their migratory histories are here presented as an interdisciplinary collection of texts in distinctive voices: law professor, journalist, historian, poet, choreographer, film scholar, tai-chi expert, translator, writer, literary scholar.
Download or read book Chinatown Pretty written by Valerie Luu and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinatown Pretty features beautiful portraits and heartwarming stories of trend-setting seniors across six Chinatowns. Andria Lo and Valerie Luu have been interviewing and photographing Chinatown's most fashionable elders on their blog and Instagram, Chinatown Pretty, since 2014. Chinatown Pretty is a signature style worn by pòh pohs (grandmas) and gùng gungs (grandpas) everywhere—but it's also a life philosophy, mixing resourcefulness, creativity, and a knack for finding joy even in difficult circumstances. • Photos span Chinatowns in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, and Vancouver. • The style is a mix of modern and vintage, high and low, handmade and store bought clothing. • This is a celebration of Chinese American culture, active old-age, and creative style. Chinatown Pretty shares nuggets of philosophical wisdom and personal stories about immigration and Chinese-American culture. This book is great for anyone looking for advice on how to live to a ripe old age with grace and good humor—and, of course, on how to stay stylish. • This book will resonate with photography buffs, fashionistas, and Asian Americans of all ages. • Chinatown Pretty has been featured by Vogue.com, San Francisco Chronicle, Design Sponge, Rookie, Refinery29, and others. • With a textured cover and glossy bellyband, this beautiful volume makes a deluxe gift. • Add it to the shelf with books like Humans of New York by Brandon Stanton, Advanced Style by Ari Seth Cohen, and Fruits by Shoichi Aoki.
Book Synopsis Lucky Cats Paper Dolls by : Maggie Swanson
Download or read book Lucky Cats Paper Dolls written by Maggie Swanson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two adorable kitty paper dolls, based on the Asian legend of the raised paw or "beckoning" cat, come with more than 40 fanciful costumes and a bonus poster with dozens of stickers.
Book Synopsis The paper daughters of Chinatown by : Allison Hong Merrill
Download or read book The paper daughters of Chinatown written by Allison Hong Merrill and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the true story of two friends who unite to help rescue immigrant women in the most dangerous corners of San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1890s. When Tai Choi leaves her home in the Zhejiang province of China, she believes she'll be visiting her grandmother. But in truth, despite her mother's opposition, her father has sold her to pay his gambling debts. Alone and afraid, Tai Choi is put on a ship headed for San Francisco, known among the Chinese as Gold Mountain. When she arrives, she is forced to go by the new name listed on her paper documents: Tien Fu Wu. Her new life as a servant at a gambling den is hard. She is told to stay hidden, to stay silent, and to perform an endless list of chores, or else she will be punished. Tien Fu thinks her life couldn't get any worse, until she is sold again to an abusive shopkeeper and tasked to care for a young boy. If she is to survive, Tien Fu must persevere, and learn who to trust. When Dolly Cameron arrives in San Francisco to teach sewing at a mission home for orphaned Asian girls, she meets Tien Fu, who is willful, defiant, and unwilling to trust anyone. Dolly quickly learns that all the girls at the home were freed from lives of servitude and maltreatment. Dolly immediately joins the group of women dedicated to saving more of these "paper daughters" because some in authority have turned a blind eye to the situation. Despite many challenges, Dolly and Tien Fu forge a powerful friendship as they mentor and help those in the mission home and work to win the freedom of thousands of immigrant women and girls.
