20th century america
20th century rhymes
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american bureaucracy
american literature
anti asian hate
asian american history
asian american literature
asian american studies
Author_Marlon K. Hom
cantonese literature
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chinese american history
chinese american life
chinese american literature
chinese immigrants
chinese literature
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ethnic studies
first generation immigrants
poetry
san francisco chinatown
Product details
- ISBN 9780520081048
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 27 Nov 1992
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Marlon Hom has selected and translated 220 rhymes from two collections of Chinatown songs published in 1911 and 1915. The songs are outspoken and personal, addressing subjects as diverse as sex, frustrations with the American bureaucracy, poverty and alienation, and the loose morals of the younger generation of Americans. Hom has arranged the songs thematically and gives an overview of early Chinese American literature.
Marlon K. Hom is Professor of Asian American Studies at San Francisco State University.
