Category Archives: Subject 学科资讯

Asian American Studies Now

Author:Jean Yu-Wen Shen Wu and Thomas C. Chen

Publisher:Rutgers University Press

Publishing Year:2010

Call Number:E184.A75A832aas

Introduction:Asian American Studies Now truly represents the enormous changes occurring in Asian American communities and the world, changes that require a reconsideration of how the interdisciplinary field of Asian American studies is defined and taught. This comprehensive anthology, arranged in four parts and featuring a stellar group of contributors topics such as transnationalism, U.S. imperialism, multiracial identity, racism, immigration, citizenship, social justice, and pedagogy.

Bridging the Pacific——桥跨太平洋

Author:Thomas W. Chinn

Publisher:Chinese Historical Society of America

Publishing Year:1989

Call Number:F869.S39C539

Introduction:Bridging the Pacific describes the real people who lived behind the exotic sounds and smells and colors of Author’s childhood memories. Confined for a long time to an overpopulated ghetto, hemmed in by prejudice and denied the right to enter mainstream American life, the people of San Francisco Chinatown have stories to tell that can touch any American of any race. Thomas Chinn tells their stories with sympathy and humor, and gives a new look at San Francisco’s early years.

唐人街 共生与同化

作者 :吴景超 著  筑生 译唐人街

出版社 :天津人民出版社

年份 :1991

索书号 :E184.C5 W959t

介绍 :本书原是吴景超先生1928年8月在芝加哥大学社会学人类学系用英语写作的博士论文。从中国人最初移民美国说起,重点研究唐人街的社会结构、文化冲突及家庭生活。唐人街是生活在一起的两种不同文化、不同文明的种族群体相互交往而又不同化时不可避免的产物,它“确实创造了一种环境,使华人感到舒适和安全。”(第152页)“这里是华人的海外故乡。”作者对唐人街的生活组织、帮会、通婚、同化、边际人的探讨尤为细致和深刻。

Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown

gentheAuthor:Arnold Genthe and John Kuo Wei Tchen

Publisher:Dover Publications

Publishing Year:1984

Call Number:F869.S36G337

Introduction:In 1985, a cultured, well-educated young German named Arnold Genthe arrived in San Francisco as a tutor to the son of an aristocratic family. Almost immediately, Genthe was attracted by Chinatown, or “Tangrenbu”–a teeming ten-block area of crowded buildings,narrow streets and exotic sights and sounds int he shadow of Nob Hill.

The Chinese of Kern County 1857-1960

the chinese of kern countryAuthor:William Harland Boyd

Publisher:Kern County Historical Society

Publishing Year:2002

Call Number:F868.K3B789

Introduction:”Bakersfield’s old and new Chinatowns before the 1952 earthquake, and the lives of the Chinese in eight surrounding towns. Occupations as miners, railroad workers, gardners, farmers, gamblers, herb doctors and cooks over three or four generations.”