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Author Gao, Yunxiang, author.

Title Arise, Africa! roar, China! : Black and Chinese citizens of the world in the twentieth century / Gao Yunxiang
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 392 pages) : illustrations
Series The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Contents Africa, Arise! Face the rising sun! W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois -- Arise! Ye who refuse to be bond slaves: Paul Robeson, "The Black king of songs" -- Transpacific mass singing, journalism, and Christian activism: Liu Liangmo -- Choreographing ethnicities, war, and revolution around the globe: Sylvia Si-lan Chen Leyda -- Roar, China! Langston Hughes, Poet Laureate of the Negro race
Summary "This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War-journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen. Charting a new path in the study of Sino-American relations, Gao Yunxiang foregrounds African Americans, combining the study of Black internationalism and the experiences of Chinese Americans with a trans-Pacific narrative and an understanding of the global remaking of China's modern popular culture and politics. Gao reveals earlier and more widespread interactions between Chinese and African American leftists than accounts of the familiar alliance between the Black radicals and the Maoist Chinese would have us believe. The book's multilingual approach draws from massive yet rarely used archival streams in China and in Chinatowns and elsewhere in the United States. These materials allow Gao to retell the well-known stories of Du Bois, Robeson, and Hughes alongside the sagas of Liu and Chen in a work that will transform and redefine Afro-Asia studies"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed February 7, 2022)
Subject Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963.
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Leyda, Si-lan Chen.
Liu, Liangmo, 1909-1988.
SUBJECT Liu, Liangmo, 1909-1988
Leyda, Si-lan Chen
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Robeson, Paul, 1898-1976 fast
Leyda, Si-lan Chen fast
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 fast
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 fast
Subject African Americans -- Relations with Chinese.
African Americans -- Political activity -- 20th century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Asian American Studies.
HISTORY / World.
Politics and government
African Americans -- Relations with Chinese
SUBJECT China -- Politics and government -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024167
Subject China
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469664620
1469664623
9781469664613
1469664615
Other Titles Black and Chinese citizens of the world in the twentieth century