Land Without Ghosts: Chinese Impressions of America from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

by Leo O. (Edited and Translated by) Arkush David R. And Lee

Book Overview

Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. "Land without Ghosts" presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 years. Included are extracts from the travel diaries of nineteenth-century diplomats, a first-hand account of blacks in 1930s Alabama and of the young white...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520062566
• ISBN13: 9780520062566
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.