Land Without Ghosts Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

Name: Land Without Ghosts Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present
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ISBN: 9780520084247

ISBN-10: 0520084241

ISBN-13: 9780520084247

Edition: 1993

Authors: R. David Arkush, Leo O. Lee

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Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader.Land without Ghostspresents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 years. Included are extracts from the travel diaries of nineteenth-century diplomats, a first-hand account of blacks in 1930s Alabama and of the young white Communists working to organize them.

Book details

List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 9/20/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.902

Leo Ou-fan Lee is Professor Emeritus of Chinese Literature at Harvard University and Professor of Humanities at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.