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Our laundry, our town : my Chinese American life from Flushing to the downtown stage and beyond /
"Our Laundry, Our Town is a memoir that decodes and processes the fractured urban oracle bones of Alvin Eng's growing up in the Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of that singular universe that was New York City in the 1970s. Back then, his family was one of the few immigrant Chinese familie...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press,
2022.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1. The Urban Oracle Bones of Our Laundry: Channeling China's Last Emperor and Rock 'n' Roll's First Opera
- 2. Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting ... or Faking It
- 3. Our Laundry's Roots in Resistance: Family Reunification Along Flushing's Fault Line
- 4. It's Only a Paper Son: The Chinatown Bachelor Society
- 5. Addressees
- 6. Disappearing Acts: That Old-Time Religion
- 7. Chinese Rocks: Opium, the Chinese Diaspora and Soul ... and Punk Rock
- 8. A Sort of Homecoming: But Where Are You Really From
- 9. The Bigger Picture, On Screen and Off
- 10. Trip the Light, Gorgeous Mosaic: Double Happiness, Discovering Playwriting and Activism
- 11. Commencement Ceremonies: Leaving Flushing
- 12. Village Pilgrimage for a Marriage Blessing
- 13. Life Dances On: Our Town in China
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Photographs follow page
- About the Author
- Series