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This book provides a timely and much-needed paradigm shift in our understanding of Chinatown, through an in-depth case study of Sydney's Chinatown.

This book is the result of my meeting Virginia Brautigan Aste and sitting down and interviewing her over the course of six years. Our conversations continued as we built a friendship at our teaching jobs at a small school in Pahoa, Hawaii and by meeting for breakfast at the local cafe. What is in this book are essays, photographs, and Virginia's story. Her narrative highlights her years growing up in California and then her adventures before, ...

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God's perfect love has always been the absolute truth that author Karen Anderson took to heart, even sharing her belief of God's perfect love within a prison ministry. However, her understanding of God's love changed when she became caregiver for her elderly aunt and began to witness to her about the finished work of Jesus and what Jesus did on the cross. Her conversations about God with her aunt, and her aunt's eventual acceptance of Jesus, i...

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Andrew Knight ist neuer Stern am Bostoner Gastrohimmel - doch mittlerweile total ausgebrannt. Beim spontanen Kurzurlaub in Maine trifft er auf Brooke Day, die den lokalen kulinarischen Geheimtipp leitet und nicht ahnt, wer sich da bei ihr einquartiert. Gemeinsam machen sie aus dem bisher erfolglosen Geheimtipp eine In-Location, und Andrew hat zum ersten Mal seit Jahren wieder Spaß beim Kochen. Doch kann Brooke ihm verzeihen, dass er ihr nicht ...

Chinatowns' are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immigrant Chinese district, an alien enclave of 'the East' in 'the West'. By the 1980s, when these Western societies had largely given up their racially discriminatory immigration policies and opened up to Asian immigration, the dominant conception of Chi...

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The idea that humankind constituted a unity, albeit at different stages of 'development', was in the 19th century challenged with a new way of thinking. The 'savagery' of certain races was no longer regarded as a stage in their progress towards 'civilisation', but as their permanent state. What caused this shift?In Kay Anderson's provocative new account, she argues that British colonial encounters in Australia from the late 1700s with the appa...

Popular wisdom maintains that the colourful Chinese quarters of Canadian, American, and Australian cities owe their existence to the generations of Chinese immigrants who have made their lives there. The restaurants, pagodas, and neon lights are seen as intrinsically connected to the Chinese and their immigrant experience in the West. Kay Anderson argues, however, that "Chinatown" is a Western construction, illustrative of a process of cultura...

Smoothie küsst SchokoladeAdam Stone! Eigentlich soll Liz in der TV-Talkrunde Werbung für ihre neu eröffnete Chocolaterie machen. Aber wer kann bitte daran denken, wenn der eigene Jugendschwarm, seines Zeichens Ex-Model und Fitnessguru, so nah neben einem sitzt? Doch dann macht Adam eine eindeutig zweideutige Bemerkung über sie. Was für ein Idiot! Ihre Familie sieht das hingegen ganz anders: endlich jemand, der Liz aus ihrem Dornröschenschlaf w...

Eine Prise davon macht jedes Essen besser - Geheimzutat Liebe Andrew Knight ist neuer Stern am Bostoner Gastrohimmel - doch mittlerweile total ausgebrannt. Beim spontanen Kurzurlaub in Maine trifft er auf Brooke Day, die den lokalen kulinarischen Geheimtipp leitet und nicht ahnt, wer sich da bei ihr einquartiert. Gemeinsam machen sie aus dem bisher erfolglosen Geheimtipp eine In-Location, und Andrew hat zum ersten Mal seit Jahren wieder Spaß ...

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Having just read this book, cover to cover, I can honestly say that I have not felt so excited about the discipline of geography since i was in my first year at college.... Overall, therefore, this is a truly wonderful book and the first comprehansive analysis of the cultural turn tha geography has taken, the pitfalls which lie ahead and the course which needs to be chartered. Innovative, invigorating, passionate and groundbreaking, it makes y...

The idea that humankind constituted a unity, albeit at different stages of 'development', was in the 19th century challenged with a new way of thinking. The 'savagery' of certain races was no longer regarded as a stage in their progress towards 'civilisation', but as their permanent state. What caused this shift? In Kay Anderson's provocative new account, she argues that British colonial encounters in Australia from the late 1700s with the app...