Tag: China

  • Call for Papers: Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies 2130 Fulton Street San Francisco, California 2015-07-09 Negotiating Identities: Mixed-Race Individuals in China, Japan, and Korea, April 14-15, 2016 The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce the…

  • Four-country newspaper framing of Barack Obama’s multiracial identity in the 2008 US presidential election Ecquid Novi: African Journalism Studies Volume 35, Issue 3, 2014 pages 23-38 DOI: 10.1080/02560054.2014.955867 Kioko Ireri, Assistant Professor of Journalism & Mass Communication United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya Though Barack Obama was the first African American presidential nominee for a…

  • Our story about the forced repatriation of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy during World War Two told of the devastation for those families left behind. Barbara Janecek shared her own tale in response.

  • After World War Two ended, the British government forcibly repatriated hundreds of Chinese sailors who had been recruited for the Merchant Navy. Their sudden departure had a devastating effect on families left behind, like that of Yvonne Foley.

  • Dragons in the Land of the Condor: Writing Tusán in Peru University of Arizona Press 2014 264 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-3111-0 Ignacio López-Calvo, Professor of Latin American Literature University of California, Merced Foreword by Eugenio Chang-Rodríguez, Professor Emeritus Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in…

  • Critical Mixed-Race In Transnational Perspective: The US, China, And Hong Kong, 1842-1943 Center for East Asian Studies Lathrop East Asia Library, Room 224 Stanford University 518 Memorial Way, Stanford, California Thursday, 2015-01-15, 16:15-17:30 PST (Local Time) Emma Teng, T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations Massachusetts Institute of Technology This paper will examine…

  • Pictures made in the ’60s by a young photographer, Joo Myung Duck, depict the mixed-race children of foreign servicemen and Korean women

  • Waiting For Saskatchewan Turnstone Press 1985 96 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0888011008 Fred Wah Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry 1985 Wah interprets memory—a journey to China and Japan, his father’s experience as a Chinese immigrant in small Canadian towns, images from childhood—to locate the influence of genealogy. The procession of narrative reveals Wah’s…

  • Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade,…

  • From Harlem to Shenzhen: One Jamaican-Chinese Woman’s Quest to Find Her Family The Wall Street Journal 2014-09-02 Debra Bruno Growing up in New York’s Harlem, Paula Williams Madison knew she had a Chinese grandfather, even though she had never met him. When people found out, she says, most of them would make comments such as…