Judy Yung 
The Adventures of Eddie Fung [EPUB ebook] 
Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War

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Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco’s Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle.
Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12, 500 POW and 70, 000 Asian lives. Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life.

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Cuprins

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Growing Up in Chinatown
2. A Chinese Cowboy in Texas
3. A Good Soldier
4. A Prisoner of the Japanese
5. A POW Survivor
6. Learning to Live with Myself
Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Despre autor

Judy Yung is professor emerita of American studies at the University of California Santa Cruz. She is co-author of Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 and the author of Unbound Feet: A Social History of Chinese Women in San Francisco.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 227 ● ISBN 9780295802053 ● Mărime fișier 4.2 MB ● Editor Judy Yung ● Editura University of Washington Press ● Oraș Seattle ● Țară US ● Publicat 2011 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 4852414 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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