Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee

Younghill Kang

3.71/5 (205 ratings)

Read Now Download Now

"EAST GOES WEST is a stunning testament to Younghill Kang's indomitable spirit, his perspicacious eye, and his special mirth. The book provides us with a rare view of how urban American life was experienced-and critiqued-by Korean immigrants in the 1920s" - Elaine Kim.

Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States, Han lands in New York with only four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name. Struggling to support his studies, Han becomes by turns traveling salesman, domestic worker, and farmer. In the process, he observes the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. In its beautifully nuanced portrayal of Han's spiritual evolution and revolutions, its richly detailed examination of a cosmopolitan immigrant subculture, and its biting portraits of racism, alienation, and hypocrisy at every level of society, EAST GOES WEST is a unique American classic.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 1885030118

ISBN13:: 9781885030115

kindle Asin:: 1885030118

East Goes West: The Making of an Oriental Yankee

Younghill Kang

3.71/5 (205 ratings)

Read Download

"EAST GOES WEST is a stunning testament to Younghill Kang's indomitable spirit, his perspicacious eye, and his special mirth. The book provides us with a rare view of how urban American life was experienced-and critiqued-by Korean immigrants in the 1920s" - Elaine Kim.

Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States, Han lands in New York with only four dollars and a suitcase full of Shakespeare to his name. Struggling to support his studies, Han becomes by turns traveling salesman, domestic worker, and farmer. In the process, he observes the idealism, greed, and shifting values of the industrializing twentieth century. In its beautifully nuanced portrayal of Han's spiritual evolution and revolutions, its richly detailed examination of a cosmopolitan immigrant subculture, and its biting portraits of racism, alienation, and hypocrisy at every level of society, EAST GOES WEST is a unique American classic.

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:

Language:

ISBN10:: 1885030118

ISBN13:: 9781885030115

kindle Asin:: 1885030118

More Books

Nightwood

Djuna Barnes

No-No Boy (Classics of Asian American Literature)

John Okada

America Is in the Heart: A Personal History

Carlos Bulosan

The Hanging on Union Square

H.T. Tsiang

In a Lonely Place

Dorothy B. Hughes

Death Comes for the Archbishop

Willa Cather

A Time to Be Born

Dawn Powell

A Mercy

Toni Morrison

The Street

Ann Petry

The Mountain Lion

Jean Stafford

Dogeaters

Jessica Hagedorn

The Zebra-Striped Hearse (Lew Archer, #10)

Ross Macdonald