Uncle Ng Comes to America: Chinese Narrative Songs of Immigration and Love [With DVD]

Song texts, video and audio of National Heritage Fellowship Award winning Chinese folk artist

List of contents

3 Preface
Bell Yung & Eleanor S. Yung
11 Uncle Ng
Robert Lee
17 Muk'yu: Voices of the People
Bell Yung
25 History as Reflected in Song
Betty Lee Sung
Song Texts
31 Uncle Ng Comes to Gold Mountain
37 The Story of Gold Mountain
51 Nephew Goes to Gold Mountain
Letter from Uncle to Nephew
Letter from Nephew to Uncle
55 Toisan Embroidery Song
(or My Lady Embroiderers)
59 The Story of the Floral Writing Paper
(or The Number Eight Scholar)
Master Liang's Yearning
Swearing Their True Love
Testifying to the Past
89 Fellowship Acceptance Song, Washington D.C.
Appendices
93 Letter from President Bush
95 Award Certificate from the National Endowment for the Arts
97 Contributor Biographies

Product details

• Assisted by: Bell Yung (Editor), Eleanor S. Yung (Editor)
• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2014
• EAN: 9789881521842
• ISBN: 978-988-15218-4-2
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 229 mm x 201 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries