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Chinatown Ghosts

Author : Jim Wong-Chu
Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 1551527499
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Chinatown Ghosts written by Jim Wong-Chu and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Wong-Chu was the founder of the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop which spawned many literary stars, including Madeleine Thien, Denise Chong, and Wayson Choy. When he passed away in 2017, at the age of sixty-eight, he left not only a void in the Asian Canadian writing and publishing community but also a legacy of his own work that was never fully recognized. Jim’s poems speak eloquently to the Chinese experience in North America, both historical and present-day. This book includes Jim’s evocative Chinatown photographs, revealing the soul of a community threatened by gentrification and displacement. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A book with many images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

The Ghosts of Chinese America

Author : Alice Po Yee Tam
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book The Ghosts of Chinese America written by Alice Po Yee Tam and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ghosts of Chinatown

Author : Wesley Robert Lowe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781496087515
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts of Chinatown written by Wesley Robert Lowe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The missing truth haunts the living and the dead. When Chinese actress Jasmine Huang is found brutally murdered onstage, her pianist boyfriend, Todd Mathers, is the prime suspect. Appearance of guilt escalates when Todd disappears from Beijing. After years of running, Todd lands in Vancouver's Chinatown. With a hundred and fifty year history, Chinatown operates in ways that are unnatural and unnerving to Todd. The living and dead co-exist ... and clash. Musician Todd rents an ideal suite complete with a beautifully restored grand piano. Unknown to the pianist, this begins Todd's journey into hell. His landlord Liang is a ghost, Jasmine's father, whose sole motivation is to avenge her death. A master of psychological terrorism, he masterfully directs the natural and supernatural, trying to force Todd to a confession. The only thing stopping Liang is a sliver of uncertainty from Jasmine. Hauntings and shadows rule the nightmare that has become his life. Todd tries to prove his innocence but all evidence points to the contrary ... until ...

The Spirits of Chinatown

Author : Wesley Robert Lowe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781496115553
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Spirits of Chinatown written by Wesley Robert Lowe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spirits of Chinatown Trilogy follows pianist Todd Mathers and his battle for redemption. In Beijing, Todd was accused of murdering his actress girlfriend Jasmine. While proof was never confirmed, all evidence points to Todd as the killer. Running for years, Todd settles in Vancouver's Chinatown where forces operate in realms that Todd cannot begin to comprehend. This is the territory of ancient pain where the lines between the living and dead are blurred. The ghost of Jasmine's father seeks revenge on the young musician. A master of psychological and spiritual terrorism, Liang uses the natural and supernatural in an attempt to force Todd to confess so that judgment may be exacted. The complicating factor is Jasmine - even in death, she still loves this man and is not convinced of his guilt. Sex, love, and violence are tightly woven into these dark supernatural thrillers full of unexpected turns. Vengeance has no boundaries.

Tea That Burns

Author : Bruce Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743236599
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Tea That Burns written by Bruce Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Edward Hall may have an English name and a Connecticut upbringing, but for him a trip to Chinatown, New York, is a visit to the ghosts of his Chinese ancestors - ancestors who helped create the neighborhood that is really as much a transplanted Cantonese village as it is a part of a great American city. Among these Ancestors are missionaries and reprobates, businessmen and scholars. In Tea That Burns, Bruce Edward Hall uses the stories of these and others to tell the history of Chinatown, starting with the tumultuous journey from an ancient empire ruled by the nine dragons of the universe to a bewildering land of elevated trains, solitary labor, and violent discrimination. The world they constructed was built of backbreaking labor and poetry contests; gambling dens and Cantonese opera; Tong Wars, festivals, firecrackers, incense, and food - always food, to celebrate every conceivable occasion and to confound the ever-meddlesome "White Devils" as they attempt to master the mysteries of chop sticks and stir-fry.

Demons of Chinatown

Author : Wesley Robert Lowe
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781495987236
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Demons of Chinatown written by Wesley Robert Lowe and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 2 of the Spirits of Chinatown series, Demons of Chinatown, is the terrifying sequel to Ghosts of Chinatown. It continues the horror that crosses cultures, oceans and faiths. Liang, a tormented ghost, can't accept that his actress daughter Jasmine's death was due to a rehearsal accident. He is convinced that her boyfriend Todd Mathers intentionally murdered her. Seeking revenge on Todd, he enlists Jasmine's beguiling and devious best friend Vicky and a thousand-year-old demon named Wutong. The problem for Liang is that the sexual predator Wutong has his own agenda. Sex for sex's sake stopped being meaningful centuries ago and he needs new twists, new challenges. Vicky and Todd both become Wutong's targets, entwined in a twisted psychological, sexual, spiritual battle with souls and bodies as the prizes. It's complicated.

Ghost Month

Author : Ed Lin
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616953276
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Ghost Month written by Ed Lin and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-07-29 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Unknown Pleasures, a food stand in Taipei's night market named after a Joy Division album, and also the location for a big-hearted new mystery set in the often undocumented Taiwan. August is Ghost Month in Taiwan—a time to pay respects to the dead and avoid unlucky omens. Jing-nan, who runs a food stand in a bustling Taipei night market, isn’t superstitious, but this August will haunt him nonetheless. He learns that his high school sweetheart has been murdered—found scantily clad near a highway where she was selling betel nuts. Beyond his harrowing grief, Jing-nan is confused. “Betel nut beauties” are typically women in desperate circumstances, but Julia Huang was high school valedictorian, and the last time Jing-nan spoke to her, she was far away, happily enrolled in NYU’s honor program. The facts don’t add up. Julia’s parents don’t think so, either, but the police seem to have closed the case without asking any questions. The Huangs beg Jing-nan to do some investigating—reconnect with old classmates, see if he can learn anything more about Julia’s last years. Reluctantly, he agrees, for Julia’s sake. But nothing can prepare him for what he is about to learn, or how it will change his life.

Longtime Californ'

Author : Victor Nee
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0804153914
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Longtime Californ' written by Victor Nee and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the immigrants who left poverty-ridden villages in China to try for a better livelihood in America, the narratives and extensive interviews of Longtime Californ’ tell the true story of the Chinese in America. A young Chinese girl tells of being sold into slavery, brought to America, and rescued by a missionary; men of Chinatown recall the awful conditions and long waits on Angel Island before being allowed into the country, and remember the backbreaking experience of building the railroads that opened the West. The young Chinese are also here: some are angry and frustrated, spending their time on street corners and in gang fights; other are Marxist radicals trying to create social, political, and economic change in Chinatown ghetto. And there are the workers who go back and forth each day to the garment factories and the shops, each with his or her own story to tell, each contributing his or her share to the country that is San Francisco Chinatown. Throughout these and other stories the intricate patterns of Chinese life emerge as Chinese traditions and American customs combine to create the unique experience of Chinese-Americas, Longtime Californ’ goes beyond the hand laundries and restaurants with which Americans often associate the Chinese and unveils the secret societies, the powerful family associations, and the daily lives of the people of Chinatown.

The Children of Chinatown

Author : Wendy Rouse
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807898589
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Children of Chinatown written by Wendy Rouse and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-10-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the untold stories of a pioneer generation of young Chinese Americans, this book places the children and families of early Chinatown in the middle of efforts to combat American policies of exclusion and segregation. Wendy Jorae challenges long-held notions of early Chinatown as a bachelor community by showing that families--and particularly children--played important roles in its daily life. She explores the wide-ranging images of Chinatown's youth created by competing interests with their own agendas--from anti-immigrant depictions of Chinese children as filthy and culturally inferior to exotic and Orientalized images that catered to the tourist's ideal of Chinatown. All of these representations, Jorae notes, tended to further isolate Chinatown at a time when American-born Chinese children were attempting to define themselves as Chinese American. Facing barriers of immigration exclusion, cultural dislocation, child labor, segregated schooling, crime, and violence, Chinese American children attempted to build a world for themselves on the margins of two cultures. Their story is part of the larger American story of the struggle to overcome racism and realize the ideal of equality.

Water Ghosts

Author : Shawna Yang Ryan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594202070
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Water Ghosts written by Shawna Yang Ryan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unexpected arrival of Richard Fong's wife, along with two other women from China, brings complications for Richard as he struggles to combine his two lives and decide if he wants to be with his wife, the local woman he has fallen for, or the prostitute he has been visiting.

The Girl with Ghost Eyes

Author : M. H. Boroson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1940456452
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Girl with Ghost Eyes written by M. H. Boroson and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Girl with Ghost Eyes is a fun, fun read. Martial arts and Asian magic set in Old San Francisco make for a fresh take on urban fantasy, a wonderful story that kept me up late to finish.” —#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs It’s the end of the nineteenth century in San Francisco’s Chinatown, and ghost hunters from the Maoshan traditions of Daoism keep malevolent spiritual forces at bay. Li-lin, the daughter of a renowned Daoshi exorcist, is a young widow burdened with yin eyes—the unique ability to see the spirit world. Her spiritual visions and the death of her husband bring shame to Li-lin and her father—and shame is not something this immigrant family can afford. When a sorcerer cripples her father, terrible plans are set in motion, and only Li-lin can stop them. To aid her are her martial arts and a peachwood sword, her burning paper talismans, and a wisecracking spirit in the form of a human eyeball tucked away in her pocket. Navigating the dangerous alleys and backrooms of a male-dominated Chinatown, Li-lin must confront evil spirits, gangsters, and soulstealers before the sorcerer’s ritual summons an ancient evil that could burn Chinatown to the ground. With a rich and inventive historical setting, nonstop martial arts action, authentic Chinese magic, and bizarre monsters from Asian folklore, The Girl with Ghost Eyes is also the poignant story of a young immigrant searching to find her place beside the long shadow of a demanding father and the stigma of widowhood. In a Chinatown caught between tradition and modernity, one woman may be the key to holding everything together. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Some Chinese Ghosts

Author : Lafcadio Hearn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Chinese Ghosts written by Lafcadio Hearn and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Chinatown

Author : Steven P. Erie
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804751407
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Chinatown written by Steven P. Erie and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, from its obscure 1920s-era origins, through the Colorado River Aqueduct and State Water Projects, to today's daunting mission of drought management, water quality, environmental stewardship, and post-9/11 supply security. Simultaneous.

The Bone Collector's Son

Author : Paul Yee
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761452423
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Bone Collector's Son written by Paul Yee and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1907 Vancouver, Canada, after helping unearth a skeleton to be returned for burial in China, fourteen-year-old Bing experiences strange events that cause him to confront his fear of both ghosts and of his father.

The Ghosts Within

Author : Janna Odabas
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839444497
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book The Ghosts Within written by Janna Odabas and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ghost as a literary figure has been interpreted multiple times: spiritually, psychoanalytically, sociologically, or allegorically. Following these approaches, Janna Odabas understands ghosts in Asian American literature as self-reflexive figures. With identity politics at the core of the ghost concept, Odabas emphasizes how ghosts critically renegotiate the notion of 'Asian America' as heterogeneous and transnational and resist interpretation through a morally or politically preconceived approach to Asian American literature. Responding to the tensions of the scholarly field, Odabas argues that the literary works under scrutiny openly play with and rethink conceptions of ghosts as mere exotic, ethnic ornamentation.

City of Ghosts

Author : Kelli Stanley
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250018056
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book City of Ghosts written by Kelli Stanley and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miranda Corbie's back. Noir will never be the same. And Kelli Stanley will once again mesmerize readers with the most thrilling novel yet in her award-winning series. June, 1940. For the United States, war is on the horizon. For Miranda Corbie, private investigator and erstwhile escort, there are debts to be paid and memories—long-suppressed and willfully forgotten—to be resurrected. Enter the U.S. State Department and the man who helped Miranda get her PI license. A man she owes. A man who asks her to track a chemistry professor here in San Francisco whom he suspects is a spy for the Nazis. Playing along may get Miranda a ticket to Blitz-bombed England and answers about her past...if she survives. Through sordid back alleys and art gallery halls, from drag dress nightclubs to a Nazi costume ball, Miranda's journey into fear takes her on the famed City of San Francisco streamliner and to Reno, Nevada, the Biggest Little City in the World...where she finds herself framed for a murder she never anticipated. Forced to go underground, Miranda soldiers on alone, determined to find the truth about a murder, a Nazi spy, and her own troubling past. But Miranda will have to learn the difference between reality and illusion, from despair to deceit and factual to fake, as she tries to get her life back...and navigates a City of Ghosts.

Chinatown Pretty

Author : Valerie Luu
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452175837
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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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.