porteous samuel (20 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Good hardcover in DJ and plastic cover. Dust jacket shows light edge wear, but is protected from further damage by plastic cover. Ex-Library (college) with usual markings. Text is clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hard Bound Volume. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition.

paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good+. 272 pages; 5 5/8 x 8 3/4" Yellowing tape marks on endpapers and jacket flaps; library stamping on title page and top page edge; pocket attached to last page; light bumping to long page edge; sticker partially removed from jacket spine with scuffing to jacket; jacket edges and corners are lightly worn; jacket in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condición: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. Book Club Ed. 8vo, 1966 The Country Book Club, hardcover with dust jacket, DJ has tanned spine and edges, book spine faded, interior pages are clean and unmarked, illustrated with b/w photographs, index, 272 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dustjacket Good ++. Book Club. 272 pages. B&W plates. Light grey background dustjacket with green-hued and black decoration with black titles, price-clipped, spine browned and there is wear with chipping to edge. Clean green hardback binding with light wear to edges and boards' corners, light wear to spine-ends. Pages clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Corners of boards a little bumped. Chipping to top edge of D/J with several small closed tears.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condición: New. Ching Ling Foo: America's First Chinese Superstar. Book.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 500 pages. 9.02x5.98x1.11 inches. In Stock.

PF. Condición: New.

Condición: Poor. The jacket is scuffed and worn to its edges. Aged and tired copy. Fine to read throughout, light marks inside, sound copy.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Paperback. Condición: New.

Condición: New. &Uumlber den AutorrnrnSamuel Porteous is an award-winning Shanghai-based artist/author with close to 20 years of experience living and working in China. For the last ten years he has been Chief Creative Director of Drowsy Emperor a small bout.

Paperback / softback. Condición: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Ching Ling Foo: America's First Chinese Superstar tells the incredible story of the iconic Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo's obstacle laden rise to unprecedented fame and private railway car riding fortune as a bustling, polyglot, entertainment mad, ever richer, disruptive technology embracing America burst into the Twentieth Century. Ching Ling Foo; reportedly the greatest illusionist ever seen on American soil along with his talented family of musicians and acrobats overcome on stage attacks, deportation attempts, homeland tragedy, and a talented and diabolically clever American copycat to make an indelible impact on American popular culture becoming the highest paid, most popular performers in the United States - twice!Ching Ling Foo's story is a magical one that, with its focus on the interaction of Chinese and Western cultures, geopolitical tensions, international intrigue, nativism, the importance of celebrity and disruptive technological developments seemingly has much resonance for our current era.Even a partial list of 'the Original Chinese Conjurer's accomplishments still dazzle: Highest paid and most popular performer in American vaudeville, twice breaking box office records from 1898-1900 and again from 1912-1915 Inspired a mania for Chinese magic, a seemingly endless list of copycats, and one real genius: William Robinson, a.k.a. Chung Ling Soo, the doomed rival with whom Foo would become paired for eternity. Subject of a historic, precedent-setting deportation trial, closely followed across the U.S. Maker, in 1899, of the first sound recordings of Chinese music and singing. Instigator of the infamous 1905 London 'World Championship of Chinese Magic.' This much-hyped 'War of the Wizards' would pit Foo against archrival Chung Ling Soo, the stage name of American performer William Robinson-the man who had appropriated both Foo's act and his identity. The contest and its denouement would result in an enduring mystery when, at the last minute, the sphinxlike Foo walked away from his own challenge. (This biography will provide, for the first time, a plausible and research-based solution to this otherwise puzzling outcome.) Maker, in 1911, of Wuchang Uprising, considered by many to be China's first documentary. This daring and innovative war documentary, which played to rapt audiences in theaters across China, would play a significant role in rallying opposition to the Qing Dynasty and the founding of the Chinese Republic. In the 1930s, more than a decade after his death, his impact on the evolution of the film industry would be acknowledged when the man who would become known as the father of film special effects-and an inspiration for George Lucas's Star Wars-would identify Foo as the man who mentored him in the field of optical illusion.Beyond all this-and there is more-perhaps the genial and charismatic Chinese conjurer's greatest legacy was in the area of cultural and person-to-person diplomacy. In the era of the uniquely discriminatory Chinese Exclusion Act, over a period of almost 20 years, Ching Ling Foo and his talented family, through the joyful and dignified presentation of their sheer talent, managed to introduce to an American public awash in very hostile representations involving opium, deceit, and vice, what was aptly termed a very 'different picture.'.