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The Chinese Other, 1850-1925 (Of Former Students, Texas A&m U.; 68)
Dave Williams
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Paperback. Num Pages: 452 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 517.
This book is a collection designed to gather together, for the first time, a conceptually wide and historically deep array of primary texts which demonstrate Euroamerican attitudes toward the Chinese. Among the many cultural artifacts generated by this encounter were plays written by Euroamericans which contained one or more representations of the Chinese. It would be reductive to say that such portrayals show merely the racism of a dominant culture toward a distinctive and different minority. Racism is of course present, sometimes of the coarsest and crudest sort; but other themes appear in the many dramatic portrayals of the Chinese ... Read more
This book is a collection designed to gather together, for the first time, a conceptually wide and historically deep array of primary texts which demonstrate Euroamerican attitudes toward the Chinese. Among the many cultural artifacts generated by this encounter were plays written by Euroamericans which contained one or more representations of the Chinese. It would be reductive to say that such portrayals show merely the racism of a dominant culture toward a distinctive and different minority. Racism is of course present, sometimes of the coarsest and crudest sort; but other themes appear in the many dramatic portrayals of the Chinese ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Number of pages
452
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
452
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780761807575
SKU
V9780761807575
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About Dave Williams
Dave Williams is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Providence University in Ithaca, New York.
Reviews for The Chinese Other, 1850-1925 (Of Former Students, Texas A&m U.; 68)
Dave Williams has rescued fromobscurity several plays that testify to the numerous legal, institutional, and social efforts to control Chinese access to the literal and imagined borders of the United States during thelater nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Theatre Journal
Dave Williams has rescued fromobscurity several plays that testify to the numerous legal, institutional, and social efforts to ... Read more
Theatre Journal
Dave Williams has rescued fromobscurity several plays that testify to the numerous legal, institutional, and social efforts to ... Read more