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The Adventures of Eddie Fung

Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War

Judy Yung (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
227 Seiten
2015
University of Washington Press (Verlag)
978-0-295-99719-3 (ISBN)
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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.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.7.2015
Zusatzinfo 37 illus.
Verlagsort Seattle
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 518 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie Volkskunde
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-295-99719-2 / 0295997192
ISBN-13 978-0-295-99719-3 / 9780295997193
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