Doctor Mom Chung Of The Fair Haired Bastards

Author : Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520938922

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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Pdf

During World War II, Mom Chung's was the place to be in San Francisco. Soldiers, movie stars, and politicians gathered at her home to socialize, to show their dedication to the Allied cause, and to express their affection for Dr. Margaret Chung (1889-1959). The first known American-born Chinese female physician, Chung established one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1920s. She also became a prominent celebrity and behind-the-scenes political broker during World War II. Chung gained national fame when she began "adopting" thousands of soldiers, sailors, and flyboys, including Ronald Reagan, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. A pioneer in both professional and political realms, Chung experimented in her personal life as well. She adopted masculine dress and had romantic relationships with other women, such as writer Elsa Gidlow and entertainer Sophie Tucker. This is the first biography to explore Margaret Chung's remarkable and complex life. It brings alive the bohemian and queer social milieus of Hollywood and San Francisco as well as the wartime celebrity community Chung cultivated. Her life affords a rare glimpse into the possibilities of traversing racial, gender, and sexual boundaries of American society from the late Victorian era through the early Cold War period.

Author : Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Chinese American physicians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025830766

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Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Pdf

Author : Diane Wood Middlebrook
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0395957893

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Suits Me by Diane Wood Middlebrook Pdf

The jazz pianist Billy Tipton was born in Oklahoma City as Dorothy Tipton, but almost nobody knew the truth until the day he died. This jazz era biography evokes the rich, popular-music history of the Great Depression and reads like a detective story. 60 photos.

Author : Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520938925

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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Pdf

During World War II, Mom Chung's was the place to be in San Francisco. Soldiers, movie stars, and politicians gathered at her home to socialize, to show their dedication to the Allied cause, and to express their affection for Dr. Margaret Chung (1889-1959). The first known American-born Chinese female physician, Chung established one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco's Chinatown in the 1920s. She also became a prominent celebrity and behind-the-scenes political broker during World War II. Chung gained national fame when she began "adopting" thousands of soldiers, sailors, and flyboys, including Ronald Reagan, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. A pioneer in both professional and political realms, Chung experimented in her personal life as well. She adopted masculine dress and had romantic relationships with other women, such as writer Elsa Gidlow and entertainer Sophie Tucker. This is the first biography to explore Margaret Chung's remarkable and complex life. It brings alive the bohemian and queer social milieus of Hollywood and San Francisco as well as the wartime celebrity community Chung cultivated. Her life affords a rare glimpse into the possibilities of traversing racial, gender, and sexual boundaries of American society from the late Victorian era through the early Cold War period.

Author : Shelley Sang-Hee Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135071066

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A New History of Asian America by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee Pdf

A New History of Asian America is a fresh and up-to-date history of Asians in the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Drawing on current scholarship, Shelley Lee brings forward the many strands of Asian American history, highlighting the distinctive nature of the Asian American experience while placing the narrative in the context of the major trajectories and turning points of U.S. history. Covering the history of Filipinos, Koreans, Asian Indians, and Southeast Indians as well as Chinese and Japanese, the book gives full attention to the diversity within Asian America. A robust companion website features additional resources for students, including primary documents, a timeline, links, videos, and an image gallery. From the building of the transcontinental railroad to the celebrity of Jeremy Lin, people of Asian descent have been involved in and affected by the history of America. A New History of Asian America gives twenty-first-century students a clear, comprehensive, and contemporary introduction to this vital history.

Author : Judy Tzu-Chun Wu,Gwendolyn Mink
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479831920

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Fierce and Fearless by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu,Gwendolyn Mink Pdf

"The book explores the life and politics of Patsy Takemoto Mink (1927-2002), a third generation Japanese American from Hawai'i, the first woman of color in Congress and the legislative champion of Title IX. Co-authored by her daughter, political scientist Gwendolyn Mink, and historian Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, this work discusses Mink's decades-long work for women's equality, civil rights, environmental humanism, and peace. The book considers Mink's policy and political commitments and contributions and explores how Mink's Pacific World view shaped her politics as a feminist, a civil rights advocate, an environmentalist, and a critic of U.S. militarism. From the late 19th century immigration story of Mink's forbears through Mink's early 21st century advocacy for social justice, this book offers new insights regarding intersectional legislative feminism and Pacific feminism, makes visible one woman's policy activism in the mainstream of U.S. politics, and brings much needed attention to a woman of color who profoundly shaped the politics of race, class, and gender in the second half of the 20th century"--

Author : Mai-Linh K. Hong,Chrissy Yee Lau,Preeti Sharma
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520384002

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The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice by Mai-Linh K. Hong,Chrissy Yee Lau,Preeti Sharma Pdf

"The Auntie Sewing Squad Guide to Mask Making, Radical Care, and Racial Justice is a community manifesto of essays, poems, recipes, and art describing people who stepped up in the absence of government leadership. In March 2020, when the US government failed to provide personal protective equipment in the face of COVID-19, the Auntie Sewing Squad emerged to meet a critical need--sewing masks--and to critique the US government failure to protect the public's health. Led primarily by Asian American women and other women of color, including some who learned to sew from refugee mothers and grandmothers working in sweatshops, the Auntie Sewing Squad openly tells a history of exploited immigrant labor, while turning it on its head. The Auntie Sewing Squad became a cadre of dispersed mask-sewers who nimbly funneled masks to asylum seekers, indigenous communities, incarcerated people, and many others in need of protection. Sewing masks became a way not only to meet a public health need, but also to come together in mutual aid and to support cross-racial solidarity and political action in a moment of social upheaval"--

Author : Judy Tzu-Chun Wu
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801468186

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Radicals on the Road by Judy Tzu-Chun Wu Pdf

Traveling to Hanoi during the U.S. war in Vietnam was a long and dangerous undertaking. Even though a neutral commission operated the flights, the possibility of being shot down by bombers in the air and antiaircraft guns on the ground was very real. American travelers recalled landing in blackout conditions, without lights even for the runway, and upon their arrival seeking refuge immediately in bomb shelters. Despite these dangers, they felt compelled to journey to a land at war with their own country, believing that these efforts could change the political imaginaries of other members of the American citizenry and even alter U.S. policies in Southeast Asia.In Radicals on the Road, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu tells the story of international journeys made by significant yet underrecognized historical figures such as African American leaders Robert Browne, Eldridge Cleaver, and Elaine Brown; Asian American radicals Alex Hing and Pat Sumi; Chicana activist Betita Martinez; as well as women's peace and liberation advocates Cora Weiss and Charlotte Bunch. These men and women of varying ages, races, sexual identities, class backgrounds, and religious faiths held diverse political views. Nevertheless, they all believed that the U.S. war in Vietnam was immoral and unjustified.In times of military conflict, heightened nationalism is the norm. Powerful institutions, like the government and the media, work together to promote a culture of hyperpatriotism. Some Americans, though, questioned their expected obligations and instead imagined themselves as "internationalists," as members of communities that transcended national boundaries. Their Asian political collaborators, who included Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government Nguyen Thi Binh and the Vietnam Women's Union, cultivated relationships with U.S. travelers. These partners from the East and the West worked together to foster what Wu describes as a politically radical orientalist sensibility. By focusing on the travels of individuals who saw themselves as part of an international community of antiwar activists, Wu analyzes how actual interactions among people from several nations inspired transnational identities and multiracial coalitions and challenged the political commitments and personal relationships of individual activists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004336100

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Gendering the Trans-Pacific World by Anonim Pdf

Gendering the Trans-Pacific World introduces an emergent interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary field that highlights the inextricable link between gender and the trans-Pacific world. The anthology examines the geographies of empire, the significance of intimacy and affect, the importance of beauty and the body, and the circulation of culture.

Author : Flora Belle Jan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780252091568

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Unbound Spirit by Flora Belle Jan Pdf

This volume collects the letters written over a thirty-year period by a second generation Chinese American woman, Flora Belle Jan (1906–50). Born in California to immigrant parents and educated at Berkeley and the University of Chicago, Jan raised three children with her husband Charles Wang and worked as a journalist in both the United States and China. Written during the years 1918–48, these letters offer unique insight into the social and political situation of educated, middle-class, professional Chinese American women in the early twentieth century. Literate, candid, and charming, they convey the intellectual curiosity and perspicacity of a vivacious and ambitious woman while tracing her engagement with two different worlds.

Author : John Green
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bildungsromans
ISBN : 9781408848180

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Paper Towns by John Green Pdf

Quentin Jacobson has spent a lifetime loving Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life - dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge - he follows. After their all-nighter ends, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo has disappeared.

Author : Leila J. Rupp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0226731561

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A Desired Past by Leila J. Rupp Pdf

In this book, the author combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into a story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries.

Author : Philip K. Dick
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780547572482

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The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick Pdf

Slavery is back. America, 1962. Having lost a war, America finds itself under Nazi Germany and Japan occupation. A few Jews still live under assumed names. The 'I Ching' is prevalent in San Francisco. Science fiction meets serious ideas in this take on a possible alternate history.

Author : Johnny Saldana
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781446200124

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The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers by Johnny Saldana Pdf

The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers is unique in providing, in one volume, an in-depth guide to each of the multiple approaches available for coding qualitative data. In total, 29 different approaches to coding are covered, ranging in complexity from beginner to advanced level and covering the full range of types of qualitative data from interview transcripts to field notes. For each approach profiled, Johnny Saldaña discusses the method’s origins in the professional literature, a description of the method, recommendations for practical applications, and a clearly illustrated example.

Author : Anh Do
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781459616059

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The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do Pdf

The bestselling, laugh-out-loud, reach for your hanky story of one of Australia's best-loved comedians.