A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as “Orientals.” Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit these disparate communities ...(展开全部)

A narrative history of the movement that turned “Orientals” into Asian Americans Until the political ferment of the Long Sixties, there were no Asian Americans. There were only isolated communities of mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Filipinos lumped together as “Orientals.” Serve the People tells the story of the social and cultural movement that knit these disparate communities ...(展开全部)

林留清怡，饮食及文化作家，为《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《风味》杂志、《美食与美酒》杂志等媒体供稿；是多个餐馆奖项的评审委员; 还是北京国际慢食运动的领导人之一。 在中国的美食冒险之旅让她写下了《寻味中国》这本书，得到《纽约时报》、《科克斯书评》、《人物》杂志等媒体的一致好评和推荐，并获得美食世界饮食图书奖之最佳中国饮食书奖和《匹兹堡邮报》年度最佳图书奖。

A Chinese-American associates herself with her ancestral heritage through China's yet most pround export: chinese food.

A Chinese-American associates herself with her ancestral heritage through China's yet most pround export: chinese food.

林留清怡，饮食及文化作家，为《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、《风味》杂志、《美食与美酒》杂志等媒体供稿；是多个餐馆奖项的评审委员; 还是北京国际慢食运动的领导人之一。 在中国的美食冒险之旅让她写下了《寻味中国》这本书，得到《纽约时报》、《科克斯书评》、《人物》杂志等媒体的一致好评和推荐，并获得美食世界饮食图书奖之最佳中国饮食书奖和《匹兹堡邮报》年度最佳图书奖。

Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing history when it appeared in 1984. Set on the South Island beaches of New Zealand, a harsh environment, the novel chronicles the complicated relationships between three emotional outcasts of mixed European and Maori heritage. Kerewin Holmes is a painter...(展开全部)

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, "The Bone People" is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake comes his foster-father Joe, a Ma...(展开全部)

本书为公版书，为不受著作权法限制的作家、艺术家及其它人士发布的作品，供广大读者阅读交流。汇聚授权电子版权。

In 1950 Norton Perina, a young doctor, embarks on an expedition to a remote Micronesian island in search of a rumoured lost tribe. There he encounters a strange group of forest dwellers who appear to have attained a form of immortality that preserves the body but not the mind. Perina uncovers their secret and returns with it to America, where he soon finds great success. But hi...(展开全部)