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Description edit
Yunte Huang takes a most original "ethnographic" approach to more and less well-known American texts as he traces what he calls the transpacific displacement of cultural meanings through twentieth-century America's imaging of Asia. Informed by the politics of linguistic appropriation and... read more
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- Ernest Fenollosa: Add a description of this character.
- Amy Lowell
- Florence Ayscough
- Charlie Chan
- Frobenius
- Owen Miller
- Mori
- John Yau
- Charles Bernstein
- Paul Ricoeur
- Bei Dao
- Marjorie Perloff
- Lin Yutang
- Ezra Pound
- James Clifford
- Cynthia Wong
- Chow
- Guillory
- Biggers
- Mulan
- Percival Lowell
- Gertrude Stein
- Giles
- Maxine
- Michaels
Setting & Locations edit
- China
- New York
- Japan
- Far East
- America
- United States
- Chicago
- Cambridge
- Berkeley
- Asia
- Kingston
- London
- New England
- Los Angeles
- Nanking
First Sentence edit
Franz Boas's 1903 vision for a deepened and expanded American understanding of Asia was anticipated, corroborated, and inherited by the many ethnographers, travelers, scholars, diplomats, and missionaries who went across the Pacific Ocean around the turn of the century.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Yunte Huang (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0520232232
Page Count: 224
Publisher: University of California Press
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0520232232
Page Count: 224
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 810.9005
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