Hemmed in by prejudice and restrictive laws, Chinese Americans lived in a defensive crouch at the turn of the 20th century. But author Scott D. Seligman tells, in exciting detail, the true story of three scrappy and ambitious brothers who fought hard for their share of the American dream.
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 recounts the inspiring story of immigrant women and the dramatic and effective mass consumer action they launched in turn of the century New York City.
The principal suspect of a mysterious triple murder is pressured into a confession and convicted of first-degree murder, which sets off a chain of events that changes the course of American legal history.
Chinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a leader and a fighter in Wong Chin Foo (1847–1898), whose story is a forgotten chapter in the struggle for equal rights in America. The first to use the term “Chinese American,” Wong defended his compatriots against malicious scapegoating and urged them to become Americanized to win their rights. A trailblazer and a born showman who proclaimed himself China’s first Confucian missionary to the United States, he founded America’s first association of Chinese voters and testified before Congress to get laws that denied them citizenship repealed. Wong challenged Americans to live up to the principles they freely espoused but failed to apply to the Chinese in their midst. This evocative biography is the first book-length account of the life and times of one of America’s most famous Chinese—and one of its earliest campaigners for racial equality.
Obchod mezi Východem a Západem vzkvétá jako nikdy dřív. Do Číny se hrnou tisíce Američanů, kteří se snaží využít jedinečných příležitostí. Znát správnou etiketu a protokol – a uvědomovat si kulturní rozdíly – je tedy nutností. Odborník, jenž při jednáních s Číňany sbíral zkušenosti po čtvrt století, vám nabízí vyčerpávající, aktuální a inteligentní poznatky, které potřebujete. Dozvíte se, jak si chování Číňanů vykládat, jak se vyhnout nechtěným faux-pas, jak udělat dobrý první dojem – a přitom uzavřít milionové obchody a navázat neocenitelná přátelství.