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Chiang
Yee
Price: $49.95
Subtitle: The Silent
Traveller from the East—A Cultural Biography
Author:
Da Zheng
Subject: Asian
American,
Biography, Literary
Studies
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4693-3
Pages:
368 pages
Publication Date: February 2010
Awards:
One of the Chinese American Librarians Association's Best Books of 2010
Praise for Chiang Yee:
"Da Zheng's
meticulous recording of Chiang Yee's cultural biography promises to
bring about an intensified awareness of the diverse intellectual and
cultural itineraries organizing various aspects of Chinese - American
culture. Chiang Yee: The Silent Traveller from the East will be of
interest to scholars in American Studies, Asian-America Studies,
Chinese Modern History, Travel Writing, the Memoir, Chinese Diaspora,
and the intellectual history of the twentieth century American culture."—Donald Pease, Dartmouth College
Description:
A young man arrives in England in the 1930s, knowing few
words of the English language.Yet, two years later he writes a
successful English book on Chinese art, and within the following decade
publishes more than a dozen others. This is the true story of Chiang
Yee, a renowned writer, artist, and worldwide traveler, best known for
the Silent Traveller
series—stories of England, the United States, Ireland, France, Japan,
and Australia—all written in his humorous, delightfully refreshing, and
enlightening literary style.
This biography is more than a recounting of extraordinary
accomplishments. It also embraces the transatlantic life experience of
Yee who traveled from China to England and then on to the United
States, where he taught at Columbia University, to his return to China
in 1975, after a forty-two year absence. Interwoven is the history of
the communist revolution in China; the battle to save England during
World War II; the United States during the McCarthy red scare era; and,
eventually, thawing Sino-American relations in the 1970s. Da Zheng
uncovers Yee’s encounters with racial exclusion and immigration laws,
displacement, exile, and the pain and losses he endured hidden behind a
popular public image.
About the Author:
DA ZHENG, a native of Shanghai who came to the United States in
1986, is an associate professor of English at Suffolk University.
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