American Life : a Chinese Historian's Perspective / Cho-yun Hsu ; translated by Carissa Fletcher.
| Author/creator |
Xu, Zhuoyun, 1930 |
| Other author/creator | Fletcher, Carissa. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | English edition. |
| Publication Info | Hong Kong : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2021 |
| Description | xxiv, 343 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subject(s) |
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| Uniform title | Meiguo liu shi nian cang sang. English |
| Contents | I. My First Impressions of the US -- II. The Expansion of the American Frontier -- III. Evolution of the Forms of Agriculture -- IV. The Industrialization of the US -- V. Ethnic Diversity and Social Problems (Part I) -- VI. Ethnic Diversity and Social Problems (Part II) -- VII. The Operation of the American Economy -- VIII. The Urban-Rural Divide and Class Alienation (Part I) -- IX. The Urban-Rural Divide and Class Alienation (Part II) -- X. The American Political System -- XI. The Cultural Veins of American Development -- XII. Tides of Cultural Change -- XIII. The Search for Meaning -- XIV. An Unfinished Empire and Corrupted Capitalism. |
| Abstract | "The United States is the land where Cho-yun Hsu pursued his life's work, as well as his window to observations of Western civilization; through his eyes, the nation is revealed as both a mighty empire and a grand social laboratory containing the seeds of prosperity and decline. In this memoir of his sixty-year sojourn in the United States, Cho-yun Hsu offers keen insights through the lens of history and sociology, providing a comprehensive assessment of the social lineaments of the United States in different eras, as well as its substantive transformation in the period spanning from the founding of the nation to the present--from a young nation of lofty ideals, to the successor to Europe as global hegemon, and, more recently, an emerging regime of tyranny. The work touches upon geography, culture, politics, economics, industrialization, class, ethnicity, the urban-rural divide, military affairs, the imperial enterprise and more in analyzing the origins of tension and conflict, antagonism and divisions between different classes and ethnic groups in American society, and seeks to offer a way forward from a humanistic perspective, in the hope that society may be continuously renewed through our collective efforts, and find a new path." --Amazon.com. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | Translated from the Chinese. |
| Translation of | Translation of: Xu, Zhuoyun, 1930- Meiguo liu shi nian cang sang : yi ge Hua ren de jian wen. Xinbei Shi : Lian jing chu ban shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2019 9789570852943 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022401239 |
| ISBN | 9789882372108 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9882372104 (hardcover) |
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