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 刚在图书馆看到IRIS CHANG(就是那个南京大屠杀RAPE OF NANKING的作者)的另一本书THE CHINESE IN AMERICA，有没人看过这本书，很厚很厚，要好的话我下次去就借。 |
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刚在图书馆看到IRIS CHANG(就是那个南京大屠杀RAPE OF NANKING的作者)的另一本书THE CHINESE IN AMERICA，有没人看过这本书，很厚很厚，要好的话我下次去就借。 -- HiThere - (0 Byte) 2004-6-27 周日, 04:46 (1060 reads) |
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作者：游客 在 海归茶馆 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
好像没有很大的新意。你要喜欢看书，可以到华夏去参加他们书会的讨论。
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking comes an eagerly awaited epic history.
Iris Chang made headlines in 1997 with the publication of The Rape of Nanking—a meticulously researched and brilliantly rendered examination of the sacking of that great city by the Japanese during World War II. Many readers of The Rape of Nanking responded to its themes of the fight for justice and the assertion of cultural identity—themes Chang expands upon in her new book.
Chang, the daughter of second-wave Chinese immigrants, has written an extraordinary narrative that encompasses the entire history of one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States, an epic story that spans 150 years and continues to the present day. Chang takes a fresh look at what it means to be an American and draws a complex portrait of the many accomplishments of the Chinese in their adopted country, from building the transcontinental railroad to major scientific and technological advances. A sensitive, deeply moving story of individuals whose lives have shaped and been shaped by this history, The Chinese in America is a saga of raw human tenacity and a testament to the determination of a people to forge an identity and destiny in a strange land.
The story of the Chinese in America is the story of a journey, from one of the world's oldest civilizations to one of its newest. The United States was still a very young country when the Chinese began arriving in significant numbers, and the wide-ranging contributions of these immigrants to the building of their adopted country have made it what it is today. An epic story that spans one and a half centuries, the Chinese American experience still comprises only a fraction of the Chinese diaspora. One hundred fifty years is a mere breath by the standards of Chinese civilization, which measures history by millennia. And three million Chinese Americans are only a small portion of a Chinese overseas community that is at least 36 million strong.
This book essentially tells two stories. The first explains why at certain times in China's history certain Chinese made the very hard and frightening decision to leave the country of their ancestors and the company of their own people to make a new life for themselves in the United States. For the story of the emigration of the Chinese to America is, like many other immigration stories, a push-pull story. People do not casually leave an inherited way of life. Events must be extreme enough at home to compel them to go and alluring enough elsewhere for them to override an almost tribal instinct to stay among their own.
The second story examines what happened to these Chinese émigrés once they got here. Did they struggle to find their place in the United States? Did they succeed? And if so, how much more difficult was their struggle because of the racism and xenophobia of other Americans? What were the dominant patterns of assimilation? It would be expected that the first-arriving generations of Chinese, like the first generations of other immigrant groups, would resist the assimilation of their children. But to what degree, and how successfully?
This book will also dispel the still pervasive myth that the Chinese all came to America in one wave, at one time. Ask most Americans and even quite a few Americans of Chinese descent when the Chinese came to the United States, and many will tell you of the mid-nineteenth-century Chinese laborers who came to California to chase their dreams on Gold Mountain and ended up laying track for the transcontinental railroad.
作者：游客 在 海归茶馆 发贴, 来自【海归网】 http://www.haiguinet.com
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