Asian Crossroads/Transnational American Studies
Asian Crossroads/Transnational American Studies
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亚洲十字路口/跨国美国研究
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2006
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin
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Shelley Fisher Fishkin
在美国历史上，很难找到亚洲的产品、人或思想没有发挥重要作用的时刻。美国革命？由约翰亚当斯领导的自由之子倾倒进波士顿港的是45吨来自中国的茶叶。爱默生和梭罗都在阅读东方文本的译本，并从中学习。画家玛丽·卡萨特最著名的作品都得益于她从日本版画传统中吸取的经验教训。海明威声称《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》是20世纪世纪美国文学的诞生之作，这本书怎么样？19世纪60年代，吐温还是一名年轻的记者，他首次尝试用讽刺作品来抨击种族主义。当时，他直接揭露了旧金山弗朗西斯科华人的种族主义，遭到了审查。[4]事实上，亚洲甚至在哥伦布启航前往新大陆之前就塑造了美国的面貌--因为，正如加里·冲广提醒我们的那样，“美国的'发现'正是源于亚洲。. .欧洲古老而持久地寻找通往亚洲的通道。”从一开始，亚洲--它的地理、人民、产品和文化--就被编织进了美国的结构之中。我自己的童年既不是典型的，也不是非典型的。它只是我的。我所有的祖父母都是在1970年年初移民到纽约的。
It would be hard to find any moment in the history of the U.S. when products, people, or ideas from Asia did not play a vital role. The American Revolution? It was 45 tons of tea from China that the Sons of Liberty, led by John Adams, dumped into the Boston Harbor.1 The American Renaissance? Emerson and Thoreau were reading and learning from translations of Eastern texts.2 American impressionism? The most famous works by painter Mary Cassatt are indebted to lessons she learned from traditions of Japanese printmaking.3 How about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the book which Hemingway claimed gave birth to all 20th century American literature? Twain undertook his first experiments with using satire to attack racism when, as a young journalist in the 1860s, his direct exposes of racism towards the Chinese in San Francisco were censored.4 Indeed, Asia shaped what would be the U.S. even before Columbus set sail for the New World—for, as Gary Okihiro reminds us, “America’s very ‘discovery’ resulted from . . . Europe’s ancient and persistent search for a passage to Asia.”5 From the start, Asia—its geography, its people, its products and its culture—was woven into the very fabric of what made the U.S. what it was. My own childhood was neither typical nor atypical. It was simply mine. All of my grandparents immigrated to New York near the start of