History Theory and Methods at Macalester College
Rena Zhang and Nathaniel Lay For our object analysis I and Nathaniel investigated a palm-sized, hard-cover travel guide donated to the East Side Freedom Library in 2002. The guide introduces the town of Kaili in Guizhou Province, China, which is home to a large number of Chinese Hmong (Miao) people. Using bilingual (Chinese-English) text and…
Written by Claire Menard, Macalester College During our trip to the Hmong Freedom Library, I became interested in a Japanese children’s book called ”Saru to Tora” (”The Monkey and The Tiger”). The book is clearly for (Japanese-speaking) children due to its strong use of images, lack of Kanji (complex Chinese characters), and simple sentence structure. It…