Americans and Chinese : Two Ways of Life.[In search of origins [Mirrors of life ; The individual reality ; The beginnings of contrast ; Where Europe ends and America begins] -- Men, gods and things [Marriage and class ; Success and the hero ; Two attitudes toward government ; The ills of government ; Two kinds of religion ; The bases of religious faith ; Two approaches to economic life ; Industrial failure and economic strife] - - Dilemma [American problems ; Chinese weaknesses ; Chinese communism ; World unrest, communism and America]
Published by New York : Henry Schuman, 1953., 1953
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Red cloth with black lettering ; inscription on front ep to Angli Wai from Ina Corinne Brown (1896-1984), a prominent American anthropologist, educator, and pioneer in race relations. She was a descendant of Orceneth Fisher, prominent pioneer Methodist preacher in Texas. attended Southern Methodist University from 1919 to 1921. She then moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where she served on the educational staff of the Methodist Church until 1934. The University of Chicago granted her a B.A. degree in 1936 and a Ph.D. in anthropology in 1942. She also studied at the London School of Economics and, in 1937-38, at the British Museum on a Rosenwald Fellowship. From 1939 to 1941 she worked for the federal government's National Survey of Higher Education for Negroes. Her duties there included assisting black colleges throughout the United States to develop their curricula. She also traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, and Africa to study racial problems. She was professor of social anthropology at Scarritt College, Nashville, from 1942 to 1966; In 1929-30 she and a woman companion crossed Central Africa from the mouth of the Congo on the west coast to Mombasa in British East Africa (now Kenya) on the east coast, a distance of 1,700 miles. It was a journey that probably no woman had made before that time. The two traveled by boat and train, were carried in hammocks, and walked. On her trip to Asia Brown interviewed Mahatma Gandhi and Toyohiko Kagawa. Angli Wai was the the supervisor of Moore Memorial Church Nursery School and Kindergarten at 316 Tibet Road, Shanghai, China in 1947, She had returned to the nursery after studying child care at various colleges in the United States. She also went to Chungking for several months under the auspices of United Service to China. There she conducted a child-care institute for kindergarten workers. She taught parent education at the Moore school. In July of 1957, she was approve the granting of the status of permanent residence in the US under the provisions of the Refugee Relief Act of 1953, She subsequently joined the Child Development Department of California Polytechnic State University. Angli Wai died in California in 2017.; front signature badly shaken at tp ; Contents : In search of origins [Mirrors of life ; The individual reality ; The beginnings of contrast ; Where Europe ends and America begins] -- Men, gods and things [Marriage and class ; Success and the hero ; Two attitudes toward government ; The ills of government ; Two kinds of religion ; The bases of religious faith ; Two approaches to economic life ; Industrial failure and economic strife] - - Dilemma [American problems ; Chinese weaknesses ; Chinese communism ; World unrest, communism and America] ; foxing ; FAIR.…
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- Americans and Chinese : Two Ways of Life.[In search of origins [Mirrors of life ; The individual reality ; The beginnings of contrast ; Where Europe ends and America begins] -- Men, gods and things [Marriage and class ; Success and the hero ; Two attitudes toward government ; The ills of government ; Two kinds of religion ; The bases of religious faith ; Two approaches to economic life ; Industrial failure and economic strife] - - Dilemma [American problems ; Chinese weaknesses ; Chinese communism ; World unrest, communism and America]
- Author
- Hsu, Francis L. K. [association copy, Ina Corinne Brown (1896-1984) ; Angli Wai (?-2017)
- Publisher
- New York : Henry Schuman, 1953.
- Publication year
- 1953
- Condition
- Fair
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Catalog 61 - China
Joseph Valles - Books
Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.
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