The Chinese Lady

The Chinese Lady
Author: Nancy E. Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2022
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0197581986


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In 1834, a Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America as both a prized guest and an advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional curiosity with bound feet and a celebrity used to peddle exotic wares from the East. This first biography of Afong Moy explores how she shaped Americans' impressions of China, while living as a stranger in a foreign land.


The Chinese Lady
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Nancy E. Davis
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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In 1834, a Chinese woman named Afong Moy arrived in America as both a prized guest and an advertisement for a merchant firm--a promotional curiosity with bound
The Chinese Lady
Language: en
Pages: 48
Authors: Lloyd Suh
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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Afong Moy is fourteen years old when she’s brought to the United States from Guangzhou Province in 1834. Allegedly the first Chinese woman to set foot on U.S.
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
Language: en
Pages: 553
Authors: Laura Tyson Li
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-01 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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The first biography of one of the most controversial and fascinating women of the twentieth century. Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-sh
At Home in Her Tomb
Language: en
Pages: 83
Authors: Christine Liu-Perkins
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-08 - Publisher: Charlesbridge

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Unearth the mysteries of the Mawangdui tombs and take a sneak peek at life in Han dynasty China! This middle-grade chapter book unearths one of China’s top ar
Chinese Acupuncture
Language: en
Pages: 936
Authors: Georges Soulié de Morant
Categories: Acupuncture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Paradigm Publications

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Soulie de Morant's masterpiece is the most detailed study of acupuncture available in a Western language. It was nominated for a Nobel prize and provided the fo