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The Tragic History of Lianying (蓮英慘史), World Book Company , 1920 Several works of "news fiction" ( 新闻小说 ) based on the case were published by the end of the year. On 1 July 1920, the World Book Company [ zh ] made a call for stories about Lianying and her murder.
Ghosts hoping for leavings or ghosts that inhale energy (吸氣鬼; 希棄鬼; xīqìguǐ) eat any human leftovers, and can even devour the qi of living beings. Ghosts of great powers ( 大勢鬼 ; dàshì guǐ ) are powerful rulers of ghosts (like yakshas , rakshasas , pishachas , etc.), who are perpetually aggressive and violent.
The book also examines the arrival of Bengali Hindu settlers in Treme, New Orleans. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] The book was inspired by a Bengali man, a sailor from Bengal who settled in Harlem in the 1930s. The book examines passenger records and census papers to picture the life of early Bengali settlers and how they settled to largely African-American ...
The Hawaii Federation of Japanese Labor was a labor union in Hawaii formed in 1921. In the early 1900s, Japanese migrants in Hawaii were the majority of plantation workers in the sugar cane field. These individuals were underpaid and overworked, as well as continuously discriminated against by White people on the Hawaiian Islands.
Lee, Erika, "Orientalisms in the Americas: A Hemispheric Approach to Asian American History," Journal of Asian American Studies vol 8#3 (2005) pp 235–256. Notes that 30–40% of the Chinese and Japanese immigrants before 1941 went to Latin America, especially Brazil, and many others went to Canada.
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Director James Cameron has purchased the rights to Charles Pellegrino‘s upcoming book “Ghosts of Hiroshima,” which will be published by Blackstone Publishing in August 2025 (the 80th ...
1920s in Asian sport (20 C). 1920s in Southeast Asia (20 C) / 1920s disestablishments in Asia (33 C) 1920s establishments in Asia (52 C, 2 P) 0–9. 1920 in Asia (32 ...