Images of its ruins―none more infamous than the one broadcast live during the 1977 World Series: a building burning near Yankee Stadium―proclaimed the failures of urbanism. RSVP here.Ī cultural history of the South Bronx that reaches beyond familiar narratives of urban ruin and renaissance, beyond the “inner city” symbol, to reveal the place and people obscured by its myths.įor decades, the South Bronx was America’s “inner city.” Synonymous with civic neglect, crime, and metropolitan decay, the Bronx became the preeminent symbol used to proclaim the failings of urban places and the communities of color who lived in them. The author considers a range of texts-from best-sellers to self-published paperbacks, travel literature to corporate newsletters, FBI surveillance files to flowery letters from an Ellis Island detention center-and considers the competing notions of a transpacific future that animated the literary imagination as well as some satisfying moments of revenge."-Provided by publisher.We will be presenting this event virtually, using Zoom. These were decades when China represented a new area of inquiry, and the stakes for writers to flex their expertise were at once intellectual, professional, and deeply personal. It is about the creation and refinement of those ideas, as well as the spirit of competition that underlies all critical endeavors. The book is about the circulation of ideas about China but it is also a book about writers, rivalries, and the acquisition of authority.
On the margins-in Chinatowns, on college campuses, in the failed avant-gardism of Tsiang-a different conversation about the possibilities of a transpacific future was taking place. At this time the United States "rediscovered" China, and the book traces its causes and cues in a variety of sites: the comfortable, middlebrow literature of Pearl Buck, Alice Tisdale Hobart and Lin Yutang the journalism of Carl Crow and Henry Luce exuberant reports from oil executives proclaiming a new era in global trade. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery to the American public. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T.
Book excerpt: "A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Book Synopsis A Floating Chinaman by : Hua Hsuĭownload or read book A Floating Chinaman written by Hua Hsu and published by Harvard University Press.
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