Arise Africa, Roar China: Black and Chinese Citizens of the World in the Twentieth Century Tapa dura - 2021

As New. Appears unread. Unmarked, tight, clean copy.

UsedVeryGood. Clean copy. Shows no major signs of wear. Some light residue on front & back of dust jacket.

Hardback. New. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War-journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African Americans, combining the study of Black internationalism and the experiences of Chinese Americans with a trans-Pacific narrative and an understanding of the global remaking of China's modern popular culture and politics. Gao reveals earlier and more widespread interactions between Chinese and African American leftists than accounts of the familiar alliance between the Black radicals and the Maoist Chinese would have us believe. The book's multilingual approach draws from massive yet rarely used archival streams in China and in… Leer más

Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2021. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 9.25x6.12x1.46 inches.

Univ of North Carolina Pr, 2021. Hardcover. New. 384 pages. 9.25x6.12x1.46 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.