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Remembering the Samsui Women

Author : Kelvin E.Y. Low
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774825782
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Samsui Women written by Kelvin E.Y. Low and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early twentieth century, thousands of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, with others working in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as “red-head-scarf,” after the headgear that protected them from the sun. In Singapore, the women have been celebrated as pioneering figures for their hard work and resilience, and in China for the sacrifices they made for their families. Remembering the Samsui Women looks at who these women really are and at how both countries have commemorated their experiences. It is an illuminating study of the connection between memory and nation, including the politics of what is remembered and what is forgotten.

Remembering the Samsui Women

Author : Kelvin E. Y. Low
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774825774
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Remembering the Samsui Women written by Kelvin E. Y. Low and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering the Samsui Women tells the story of women from the Samsui area of Guangdong, China, who migrated to Singapore during a period of economic and natural calamity, leaving their families behind. In their new country, many found work in the construction industry, while others worked in households or factories where they were called hong tou jin, translated literally as "red-head-scarf," after the headgear that protected them from the sun. Contributing to current debates in the fields of social memory and migration studies, this is the first book to examine how the Samsui women remember their own migratory experiences and how they, in turn, are remembered as pioneering figures in both Singapore and China.

Contemporary Art in Singapore

Author : Gunalan Nadarajan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Art in Singapore written by Gunalan Nadarajan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shifting Currents

Author : Zhuang Wubin
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Shifting Currents written by Zhuang Wubin and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia). This book was released on 2018 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting Currents: Glimpses of a Changing Nation is the first book to present a significant collection of Kouo Shang-Wei's most arresting images from his lifetime of photography. Kouo Shang-Wei (1924-1988) was a passionate and talented photographer who was particularly attuned to the passing of time. Over several decades spanning the 1950s to the late 1980s, Kouo's keen eye captured thousands of images of a rapidly changing Singapore, with his viewfinder most often focusing on the evolution of the Singapore River and its immediate environs. Today, his photographs of the Singapore River, Chinatown, the OCBC Centre, Sungei Road Market, Samsui Women, and more, provide us with a precious record of the fruits and price of modernisation. The photographs included in this book were carefully curated from the Kouo Shang-Wei Collection in the National Library, Singapore, by art historian, Zhuang Wubin.

The Heartsick Diaspora

Author : Elaine Chiew
Publisher : Myriad Editions
ISBN 13 : 1912408376
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Heartsick Diaspora written by Elaine Chiew and published by Myriad Editions. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in different cities around the world, Elaine Chiew's award-winning stories travel into the heart of the Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese diasporas to explore the lives of those torn between cultures and juggling divided selves. In the title story, four writers find their cultural bonds of friendship tested when a handsome young Asian writer joins their group. In other stories, a brother searches for his sister forced to serve as a comfort woman during World War Two; three Singaporean sisters run a French gourmet restaurant in New York; a woman raps about being a Tiger Mother in Belgravia; and a filmmaker struggles to document the lives of samsui women—Singapore's thrifty, hardworking construction workers. > Acutely observed, wry and playful, her stories are as worldly and emotionally resonant as the characters themselves. This fabulous debut collection heralds an exciting new literary voice.

Fiber connections

Author : Yayasan Seni Cemeti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fiber connections written by Yayasan Seni Cemeti and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinese Diasporas

Author : Steven B. Miles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107179920
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Diasporas written by Steven B. Miles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise and compelling survey of Chinese migration in global history centered on Chinese migrants and their families.

Many Pathways, One Mission

Author : Kum Chee Tham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Many Pathways, One Mission written by Kum Chee Tham and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Office Ladies and Salaried Men

Author : Yuko Ogasawara
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520919750
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Office Ladies and Salaried Men written by Yuko Ogasawara and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In large corporations in Japan, much of the clerical work is carried out by young women known as "office ladies" (OLs) or "flowers of the workplace." Largely nameless, OLs serve tea to the men and type and file their reports. They are exempt from the traditional lifetime employment and have few opportunities for promotion. In this engaging ethnography, Yuko Ogasawara exposes the ways that these women resist men's power, and why the men, despite their exclusive command of authority, often subject themselves to the women's control. Ogasawara, a Japanese sociologist trained in the United States, skillfully mines perceptive participant-observation analyses and numerous interviews to outline the tensions and humiliations of OL work. She details the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that OLs who are frustrated by demeaning, dead-end jobs thwart their managers and subvert the power structure to their advantage. Using gossip, outright work refusal, and public gift-giving as manipulative strategies, they can ultimately make or break the careers of the men. This intimate and absorbing analysis illustrates how the relationships between women and work, and women and men, are far more complex than the previous literature has shown.

Axel & Theo: “My Dog is the Emperor of a Faraway Galaxy”

Author : Amberly Kristen Clowe
Publisher : Smooth Sailing Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1618990519
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Axel & Theo: “My Dog is the Emperor of a Faraway Galaxy” written by Amberly Kristen Clowe and published by Smooth Sailing Press, LLC. This book was released on 2014-11-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodore Howard wants a white flag. The kind of white flag that will show Riverwood Elementary’s biggest bully, Theo’s given up on ever surviving the fourth grade, and achieving his dream of becoming a real-life astronaut. But, Theo’s seemingly pathetic future gets a glimmer of hope in the form of a very talkative weenie dog named Axel. Theo learns that his best friend on four legs, is actually an alien from the planet Doglin, and just when he begins warming up to the idea of having an alien for a best friend, Axel is kidnapped by two cats from the planet Catlat. Theo chases after Axel and his kidnappers, embarking on an adventure he could have never imagined.

Burmese Lives

Author : Wen-Chin Chang
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199335044
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Burmese Lives written by Wen-Chin Chang and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the life stories of ordinary Burmese by drawing on the narratives of individual subjects and using an array of interdisciplinary approaches. The constituted stories highlight the protagonists' survival strategies in everyday life that demonstrate their constant courage and frustration in dealing with numerous social injustices and adversities.

Sojourners and Settlers

Author : Clarence E. Glick
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824882407
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Sojourners and Settlers written by Clarence E. Glick and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many groups of Chinese who migrated from their ancestral homeland in the nineteenth century, none found a more favorable situation that those who came to Hawaii. Coming from South China, largely as laborers for sugar plantations and Chinese rice plantations but also as independent merchants and craftsmen, they arrived at a time when the tiny Polynesian kingdom was being drawn into an international economic, political, and cultural world. Sojourners and Settlers traces the waves of Chinese immigration, the plantation experience, and movement into urban occupations. Important for the migrants were their close ties with indigenous Hawaiians, hundreds establishing families with Hawaiian wives. Other migrants brought Chinese wives to the islands. Though many early Chinese families lived in the section of Honolulu called "Chinatown," this was never an exclusively Chinese place of residence, and under Hawaii's relatively open pattern of ethnic relations Chinese families rapidly became dispersed throughout Honolulu. Chinatown was, however, a nucleus for Chinese business, cultural, and organizational activities. More than two hundred organizations were formed by the migrants to provide mutual aid, to respond to discrimination under the monarchy and later under American laws, and to establish their status among other Chinese and Hawaii's multiethnic community. Professor Glick skillfully describes the organizational network in all its subtlety. He also examines the social apparatus of migrant existence: families, celebrations, newspapers, schools--in short, the way of life. Using a sociological framework, the author provides a fascinating account of the migrant settlers' transformation from villagers bound by ancestral clan and tradition into participants in a mobile, largely Westernized social order.

Down Memory Lane in Clogs

Author : Sijing
Publisher : Asiapac Books Pte Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Down Memory Lane in Clogs written by Sijing and published by Asiapac Books Pte Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Situation

Author : Russell Storer
Publisher : Steve Parish
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Situation written by Russell Storer and published by Steve Parish. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situation is inspired by a number of concerns surrounding contemporary artistic production, presentation and reception.

Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema

Author : Lisa Odham Stokes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538120623
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema written by Lisa Odham Stokes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-15 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hong Kong cinema began attracting international attention in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, Hong Kong had become "Hollywood East" as its film industry rose to first in the world in per capita production, was ranked second to the United States in the number of films it exported, and stood third in the world in the number of films produced per year behind the United States and India. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 600 cross-referenced entries on directors, producers, writers, actors, films, film companies, genres, and terminology. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Hong Kong cinema.

A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore

Author : Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113701234X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book A Sociolinguistic History of Early Identities in Singapore written by Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined through the lens of language.

Beyond the Amur

Author : Victor Zatsepine
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774834129
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Amur written by Victor Zatsepine and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that emerged in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for resources. Official histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground caught between rival empires. Zatsepine, by contrast, views it as a unified natural economy populated by Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol people who crossed the border in search of work or trade and who came together to survive a harsh physical environment. This colourful account of a region and its people highlights the often-overlooked influence of frontier developments on state politics and imperial policies and histories.