作品情報

Chinese Americansのなかで、Interviewsが立ち上がる。

Dean Wongによる『Seeing the Light: Four Decades in Chinatown』は、Chinese AmericansとInterviewsを軸に、労働やSocial life and customsへと読みを広げる評伝。

書籍情報

出版社

Chin Music Press Inc.

発売日

2016-07-05

ページ数

192ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

19.69 x 1.91 x 28.58 cm

ISBN-13

9781634059039

ISBN-10

1634059034

価格

7827 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/History/Americas/United States/State & Local

Photojournalist Dean Wong has been chronicling life in America's Chinatowns for four decades. His sensitive eye and man-of-the-people interviews bring these ghettos disguised as tourist traps to life. Through Wong, we meet the drag queen deciding to stop his medications and die of AIDS with dignity; the elderly Chinese American facing eviction as the neighborhood gentrifies; the artist told by the city that his shop is a fire hazard, and the man who challenged Bruce Lee to a fight . . . and lost. Wong focuses his attention on the Chinatowns of Seattle, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. He reveals how "Chinatown" is sometimes a misnomer because these neighborhoods often include large pockets of Vietnamese, Japanese, and other Asian American families. He also chronicles the celebratory side of life in these communities, from the events around Lunar New Year to a much-anticipated visit by the Dalai Lama. Building on the groundwork of Bonnie Tsui's American Chinatown (2009), Seeing the Light exposes an oft overlooked American community and reminds the reader that these neighborhoods are filled with much more than good places to get dim sum. Dean Wong is an award-winning photojournalist who has been chronicling Asian American life for nearly forty years. The city of Seattle and King County, Washington, declared March 8, 1995, Dean Wong Day to honor his efforts documenting the Asian and Pacific American community.

Dean Wong: Dean Wong is an award-winning photojournalist who has been chronicling Asian American life for nearly 40 years. The city of Seattle and King County, Washington, declared March 8, 1995, Dean Wong Day to honor his efforts documenting the Asian and Pacific American community.

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