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Beautiful Country

Author : Qian Julie Wang
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593313003
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Country written by Qian Julie Wang and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The moving story of an undocumented child living in poverty in the richest country in the world—an incandescent debut from an astonishing new talent • A TODAY SHOW #READWITHJENNA PICK In Chinese, the word for America, Mei Guo, translates directly to “beautiful country.” Yet when seven-year-old Qian arrives in New York City in 1994 full of curiosity, she is overwhelmed by crushing fear and scarcity. In China, Qian’s parents were professors; in America, her family is “illegal” and it will require all the determination and small joys they can muster to survive. In Chinatown, Qian’s parents labor in sweatshops. Instead of laughing at her jokes, they fight constantly, taking out the stress of their new life on one another. Shunned by her classmates and teachers for her limited English, Qian takes refuge in the library and masters the language through books, coming to think of The Berenstain Bears as her first American friends. And where there is delight to be found, Qian relishes it: her first bite of gloriously greasy pizza, weekly “shopping days,” when Qian finds small treasures in the trash lining Brooklyn’s streets, and a magical Christmas visit to Rockefeller Center—confirmation that the New York City she saw in movies does exist after all. But then Qian’s headstrong Ma Ma collapses, revealing an illness that she has kept secret for months for fear of the cost and scrutiny of a doctor’s visit. As Ba Ba retreats further inward, Qian has little to hold onto beyond his constant refrain: Whatever happens, say that you were born here, that you’ve always lived here. Inhabiting her childhood perspective with exquisite lyric clarity and unforgettable charm and strength, Qian Julie Wang has penned an essential American story about a family fracturing under the weight of invisibility, and a girl coming of age in the shadows, who never stops seeking the light.

Watercress

Author : Andrea Wang
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0823446247
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Watercress written by Andrea Wang and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Medal Winner Newbery Honor Book APALA Award Winner A story about the power of sharing memories—including the painful ones—and the way our heritage stays with and shapes us, even when we don’t see it. New England Book Award Winner A New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book While driving through Ohio in an old Pontiac, a young girl's Chinese immigrant parents spot watercress growing wild in a ditch by the side of the road. They stop the car, grabbing rusty scissors and an old paper bag, and the whole family wades into the mud to gather as much as they can. At first, she's embarrassed. Why can't her family just get food from the grocery store, like everyone else? But when her mother shares a bittersweet story of her family history in China, the girl learns to appreciate the fresh food they foraged—and the memories left behind in pursuit of a new life. Together, they make a new memory of watercress. Author Andrea Wang calls this moving, autobiographical story “both an apology and a love letter to my parents.” It’s a bittersweet, delicate look at how sharing the difficult parts of our histories can create powerful new moments of family history, and help connect us to our roots. Jason Chin’s illustrations move between China and the American Midwest and were created with a mixture of traditional Chinese brushes and western media. The dreamy, nostalgic color palette brings this beautiful story to life. An endnote from the author describes her personal connection to the story, and an illustrator’s note touches on both the process of the painting, and the emotional meaning brought to the work. New England Book Award Winner A New York Times Best Children’s Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Best Children's Book of the Year A Boston Globe Best Children's Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Children's Book of the Year A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book Winner of the Cybils Award An SCBWI Crystal Kite Award Winner A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year An ALSC Notable Children's Book Named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly, BookPage, School Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Lunch, Shelf Awareness , and more! A CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book An NPR 'Book We Love!' A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!

Chemistry

Author : Weike Wang
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524731757
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Chemistry written by Weike Wang and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award A Washington Post Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Entertainment Weekly, Ann Patchett on PBS NewsHour, Minnesota Public Radio, PopSugar, Maris Kreizman, The Morning News Winner of Ploughshares’ John C. Zacharis Award Winner of a Whiting Award A Belletrist Amuse Book At first glance, the quirky, overworked narrator of Weike Wang’s debut novel seems to be on the cusp of a perfect life: she is studying for a prestigious PhD in chemistry that will make her Chinese parents proud (or at least satisfied), and her successful, supportive boyfriend has just proposed to her. But instead of feeling hopeful, she is wracked with ambivalence: the long, demanding hours at the lab have created an exquisite pressure cooker, and she doesn’t know how to answer the marriage question. When it all becomes too much and her life plan veers off course, she finds herself on a new path of discoveries about everything she thought she knew. Smart, moving, and always funny, this unique coming-of-age story is certain to evoke a winning reaction.

Stargazing

Author : Jen Wang
Publisher : First Second
ISBN 13 : 1250754526
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Stargazing written by Jen Wang and published by First Second. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stargazing is a heartwarming middle-grade graphic novel in the spirit of Frizzy and Mexikid, from New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jen Wang. Moon is everything Christine isn't. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. But after Moon moves in next door, these unlikely friends are soon best friends, sharing their favorite music videos and painting their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around. Moon even tells Christine her deepest secret: that she has visions, sometimes, of celestial beings who speak to her from the stars. Who reassure her that earth isn't where she really belongs. Moon's visions have an all-too-earthly root, however, and soon Christine's best friend is in the hospital, fighting for her life. Can Christine be the friend Moon needs, now, when the sky is falling? Jen Wang draws on her childhood to paint a deeply personal yet wholly relatable friendship story that’s at turns joyful, heart-wrenching, and full of hope.

Theonite

Author : M. L. Wang
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535051026
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Theonite written by M. L. Wang and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joan Messi has spent thirteen lonely years hiding her supernatural abilities from her parents, her classmates, and everyone in her white bread suburban community. However, her little world of secrets is shattered when a pair of strangers arrive from a parallel dimension on the hunt for a nameless criminal. Now, after a lifetime of wondering how she got her powers, Joan might have found the beginnings of an answer. For Daniel Thundyil and his father, elemental powers and ego-maniacal supervillains are nothing new-although this is the first time a mission has brought them to a parallel dimension. Daniel's main concern in this new world isn't the looming threat of a godlike killer; it's fitting in at a school where the food is flavorless, everyone writes backwards in an ancient alphabet, and all the racial hierarchies seem to be reversed.

One Man's Destiny: The Story of An Wang

Author : May Lee
Publisher : Flying Tiger Press
ISBN 13 : 1963417992
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (634 download)

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Download or read book One Man's Destiny: The Story of An Wang written by May Lee and published by Flying Tiger Press. This book was released on 2024-08-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One Man's Dynasty: The Story of An Wang" is the compelling biography of Dr. An Wang, a visionary Chinese-American entrepreneur whose innovations in the computing industry changed the world. Born in 1920 in Jiangnan, China, Wang’s early life was marked by the chaos of war and the challenges of growing up in a rapidly changing society. Despite these obstacles, his intellectual curiosity and talent for science and technology set him on a path that would eventually lead him to the United States. After arriving in America, Wang faced the dual challenges of being an immigrant and a young engineer in a country that was often unwelcoming to outsiders. His determination and brilliance, however, quickly distinguished him from his peers. Wang’s groundbreaking invention of the magnetic core memory became a cornerstone of modern computing, revolutionizing the industry and making Wang Laboratories a dominant force in office automation during the 1970s and 1980s. This biography delves into Wang’s professional and personal life, painting a vivid picture of a man who was as dedicated to his work as he was to his cultural roots. It explores his efforts to balance his identity as a Chinese native with his role as an American business leader. Wang’s story is also one of family dynamics, as he navigated the complexities of working alongside his son, Fred Wang, and the challenges of passing on his legacy. The book does not shy away from the difficulties Wang faced, including the financial troubles that ultimately led to his stepping down from Wang Laboratories. It also highlights his significant contributions beyond the business world, particularly in education and philanthropy. Wang’s deep commitment to education is evident in his support for institutions like Harvard University, where his generous donations helped establish the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies. "One Man's Dynasty" is more than just the story of a successful entrepreneur; it is a narrative that intertwines personal triumph with technological progress and cultural preservation. It offers readers a window into the life of a man who, through sheer will and ingenuity, overcame immense odds to leave a lasting impact on both the industry he helped shape and the society he was part of. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of technology, entrepreneurship, and the immigrant experience. It serves as an inspiring reminder that the drive to innovate, combined with a deep sense of purpose, can create a legacy that transcends generations. Whether you are a technology enthusiast, a business professional, or simply someone who appreciates a powerful life story, "One Man's Dynasty: The Story of An Wang" will resonate with you and leave you with a deeper understanding of the man behind the machines that changed the world.

The Prince and the Dressmaker

Author : Jen Wang
Publisher : First Second Books
ISBN 13 : 162672363X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Prince and the Dressmaker written by Jen Wang and published by First Second Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prince Sebastian hides from his parents his secret life of dressing up in women's clothes as the hottest fashion icon in Paris, the fabulous Lady Crystallia, while his friend Frances the dressmaker strives to keep her friend's secret.

Lessons

Author : An Wang
Publisher : Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley
ISBN 13 : 9780201074086
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Lessons written by An Wang and published by Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley. This book was released on 1986 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Takedown

Author : Corrie Wang
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 1484758552
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Takedown written by Corrie Wang and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wang's smart, technocentric debut-Gossip Girl meets M.T. Anderson's Feed-addresses identity, public perception, and social media skewering." -- Publisher's Weekly Kyla Cheng doesn't expect you to like her. For the record, she doesn't need you to. On track to be valedictorian, she's president of her community club, a debate team champ, plus the yummy Mackenzie Rodriguez has firmly attached himself to her hip. But a week before college applications are due, a video of Kyla "doing it" with her crush-worthy English teacher is uploaded to her school's website. It instantly goes viral, but here's the thing: it's not Kyla in the video. With time running out, Kyla delves into a world of hackers, haters and creepy stalkers in an attempt to do the impossible-take something off the internet-all while dealing with the fallout from her own karmic footprint. Set in near-future Brooklyn, where privacy is a bygone luxury and every perfect profile masks damning secrets, The Takedown is a stylish, propulsive, and provocative whodunit, asking who would you rely on if your tech turned against you?

Legions of Boom

Author : Oliver Wang
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822375486
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Legions of Boom written by Oliver Wang and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-17 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armed with speakers, turntables, light systems, and records, Filipino American mobile DJ crews, such as Ultimate Creations, Spintronix, and Images, Inc., rocked dance floors throughout the San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1970s through the mid-1990s. In Legions of Boom noted music and pop culture writer and scholar Oliver Wang chronicles this remarkable scene that eventually became the cradle for turntablism. These crews, which were instrumental in helping to create and unify the Bay Area's Filipino American community, gave young men opportunities to assert their masculinity and gain social status. While crews regularly spun records for school dances, weddings, birthdays, or garage parties, the scene's centerpieces were showcases—or multi-crew performances—which drew crowds of hundreds, or even thousands. By the mid-1990s the scene was in decline, as single DJs became popular, recruitment to crews fell off, and aspiring scratch DJs branched off into their own scene. As the training ground for a generation of DJs, including DJ Q-Bert, Shortkut, and Mix Master Mike, the mobile scene left an indelible mark on its community that eventually grew to have a global impact.

Wang Kuo-wei

Author : Joey Bonner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674945944
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book Wang Kuo-wei written by Joey Bonner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full-fledged intellectual biography of the brilliant and multifaceted Chinese scholar Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927), Joey Bonner throws important new light on the range and course of ideas in early twentieth-century China. Coincidentally, she illuminates the nature of Wang's intimate, thirty-year personal and professional association with the well-known Chinese scholar Lo Chen-y (1866-1940) and provides a most comprehensive and compelling account of her biographee's posthumously controversial career in the years following the 1911 Revolution. Pursuing her subject across the whole spectrum of his many scholarly interests, Bonner critically examines Wang's essays on German philosophy and philosophical aesthetics; his poetry, literary criticism, and aesthetic theory; and his works on ancient Chinese history, particularly of the Shang dynasty. Insightfully relating his strenuous intellectual search in the fields of philosophy, literature, and history to his very personal quest for truth, beauty, and virtue, Bonner shows in this finely crafted book how Wang's unhappiness in later life as well as his suicide can be understood only within the context of his humanistic concerns in general and his extreme commitment in the postimperial period to the Confucian ethicoreligious tradition in particular. Without compromising the clearheaded critical detachment that characterizes her analysis of the intricacies of his thought, Bonner has produced a portrait of Wang Kuo-wei suffused with warmth and sympathetic respect.

The Other American Moderns

Author : ShiPu Wang
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271080701
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Other American Moderns written by ShiPu Wang and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Other American Moderns, ShiPu Wang analyzes the works of four early twentieth-century American artists who engaged with the concept of “Americanness”: Frank Matsura, Eitarō Ishigaki, Hideo Noda, and Miki Hayakawa. In so doing, he recasts notions of minority artists’ contributions to modernism and American culture. Wang presents comparative studies of these four artists’ figurative works that feature Native Americans, African Americans, and other racial and ethnic minorities, including Matsura and Susan Timento Pose at Studio (ca. 1912), The Bonus March (1932), Scottsboro Boys (1933), and Portrait of a Negro (ca. 1926). Rather than creating art that reflected “Asian aesthetics,” Matsura, Ishigaki, Noda, and Hayakawa deployed “imagery of the Other by the Other” as their means of exploring, understanding, and contesting conditions of diaspora and notions of what it meant to be American in an age of anti-immigrant sentiment and legislation. Based on a decade-long excavation of previously unexamined collections in the United States and Japan, The Other American Moderns is more than a rediscovery of “forgotten” minority artists: it reconceives American modernism by illuminating these artists’ active role in the shaping of a multicultural and cosmopolitan culture. This nuanced analysis of their deliberate engagement with the ideological complexities of American identity contributes a new vision to our understanding of non-European identity in modernism and American art.

The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story

Author : M. L. Wang
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781720193869
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (938 download)

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Download or read book The Sword of Kaigen: A Theonite War Story written by M. L. Wang and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better to die sharp in war than rust through a time of peace. A mother struggling to repress her violent past, A son struggling to grasp his violent future, A father blind to the danger that threatens them all. When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores?High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire's enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name 'The Sword of Kaigen.'Born into Kusanagi's legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family's fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen's alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies.Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.

The Book of Jade

Author : David Park Barnitz
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Jade written by David Park Barnitz and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2024-03-22T20:54:00Z with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who reads The Book of Jade will quickly notice a few things: the author of this collection of poems holds a pessimistic, misanthropic view of life, and his obsessions lean towards the macabre, particularly focusing on themes of death, darkness, graves, corpses, and a longing to rest among the worms. The collection presents a world where God is portrayed as foolish, other people as imbeciles, and the fate of the dead as something to be envied. Certainly not light-hearted fare! Although The Book of Jade was initially published anonymously, it didn’t take long for readers to discover the identity of its author when the obituary of David Park Barnitz, a young oriental studies scholar who passed away mere weeks after the book’s publication, admitted as much. Though somewhat uneven in quality, the work has garnered admiration from figures such as H. P. Lovecraft, Donald Wandrei, and Clark Ashton Smith, firmly establishing its place in the canon of decadent literature. This edition includes all the poems of the original 1901 edition, as well as the poem “After-Life,” which was published in Overland Monthly. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.

Carceral Capitalism

Author : Jackie Wang
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1635900026
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Carceral Capitalism written by Jackie Wang and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the contemporary continuum of incarceration: the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, and algorithmic policing. What we see happening in Ferguson and other cities around the country is not the creation of livable spaces, but the creation of living hells. When people are trapped in a cycle of debt it also can affect their subjectivity and how they temporally inhabit the world by making it difficult for them to imagine and plan for the future. What psychic toll does this have on residents? How does it feel to be routinely dehumanized and exploited by the police? —from Carceral Capitalism In this collection of essays in Semiotext(e)'s Intervention series, Jackie Wang examines the contemporary incarceration techniques that have emerged since the 1990s. The essays illustrate various aspects of the carceral continuum, including the biopolitics of juvenile delinquency, predatory policing, the political economy of fees and fines, cybernetic governance, and algorithmic policing. Included in this volume is Wang's influential critique of liberal anti-racist politics, “Against Innocence,” as well as essays on RoboCop, techno-policing, and the aesthetic problem of making invisible forms of power legible. Wang shows that the new racial capitalism begins with parasitic governance and predatory lending that extends credit only to dispossess later. Predatory lending has a decidedly spatial character and exists in many forms, including subprime mortgage loans, student loans for sham for-profit colleges, car loans, rent-to-own scams, payday loans, and bail bond loans. Parasitic governance, Wang argues, operates through five primary techniques: financial states of exception, automation, extraction and looting, confinement, and gratuitous violence. While these techniques of governance often involve physical confinement and the state-sanctioned execution of black Americans, new carceral modes have blurred the distinction between the inside and outside of prison. As technologies of control are perfected, carcerality tends to bleed into society.

Thinking Its Presence

Author : Dorothy J. Wang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804789096
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Its Presence written by Dorothy J. Wang and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When will American poetry and poetics stop viewing poetry by racialized persons as a secondary subject within the field? Dorothy J. Wang makes an impassioned case that now is the time. Thinking Its Presence calls for a radical rethinking of how American poetry is being read today, offering its own reading as a roadmap. While focusing on the work of five contemporary Asian American poets—Li-Young Lee, Marilyn Chin, John Yau, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Pamela Lu—the book contends that aesthetic forms are inseparable from social, political, and historical contexts in the writing and reception of all poetry. Wang questions the tendency of critics and academics alike to occlude the role of race in their discussions of the American poetic tradition and casts a harsh light on the double standard they apply in reading poems by poets who are racial minorities. This is the first sustained study of the formal properties in Asian American poetry across a range of aesthetic styles, from traditional lyric to avant-garde. Wang argues with conviction that critics should read minority poetry with the same attention to language and form that they bring to their analyses of writing by white poets.

The Funeral of Mr. Wang

Author : Andrew B. Kipnis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520381971
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Funeral of Mr. Wang written by Andrew B. Kipnis and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The funeral of Mr. Wang -- Of transitions and transformations -- Of space and place : Separation and distinction in the homes of the dead -- Of strangers and kin : moral family and ghastly strangers in urban sociality -- Of gifts and commodities : Spending on the dead while providing for the living -- Of rules and regulations : governing mourning -- Of souls and spirits : secularization and its limits -- Of dreams and memories : a ghost story from a land where haunting is banned -- Epilogue.