Gathering Place

Name: Gathering Place
Brand: Coffeetown Press
SKU: 9781603811231
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Stories from the Armenian Social Club in Old Shanghai

Автор: E G Sergoyan

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Coffeetown Press

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A hundred years ago, the small country of Armenia within the Ottoman Empire became the site of conti...

Информация за книгата

Автор

E G Sergoyan

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2012

страници

220

EAN

9781603811231

ISBN

9781603811231

Enbook ID

08771317

Издател

Coffeetown Press

Теглоt

272

Размери

152 x 229 x 14

Пълно описание

A hundred years ago, the small country of Armenia within the Ottoman Empire became the site of continuous border conflict, political intrigue and sporadic wars between the Turks, the Persians and the Tsarist Russians. Early in the twentieth century, these regional conflicts erupted into bitter political and ethnic "cleansing" that decimated the country and nearly destroyed the population living there. The causes and magnitude of the ethnic killing that took place during and after World War I are still debated and disputed in Turkey and Armenia today. In times of calamity or economic distress, there is a small percentage of people (about two percent) who are willing to leave family, home, and their country of origin to set up businesses in exotic or foreign lands. The two-percenters and undocumented immigrants whose stories appear in The Gathering Place made the arduous trek across Asia to gather in the exotic city of Old Shanghai, where they joined a social club in the city's Old International Settlement. Their travels coincide with war, economic depression, revolution, banditry and military occupation during the most turbulent period in modern history-a period that covers what some call the 'Modern Dark Age'-the first half of the twentieth century. The personal histories in The Gathering Place offer a fresh take on the immigrant experience during a time of momentous change in Asia-from the end of World War I to the exodus of Europeans from China.

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