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  • Chinaman (/ˈtʃaɪnə.mən/) is an offensive term referring to a Chinese man or person, or widely a person native to geographical East Asia or of perceived...
    35 KB (3,586 words) - 10:33, 27 May 2024
  • The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. is a 1988 short-story collection by Frank Chin that collects many of the short stories he had published in the...
    10 KB (1,389 words) - 16:55, 29 June 2022
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    The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co., and the third in 2000 for lifetime achievement. His full length novel, Confessions of a Number One Son: The...
    20 KB (2,202 words) - 02:41, 24 February 2024
  • The Chickencoop Chinaman is a 1972 play by Frank Chin. It was the first play written by an Asian American to have a major New York production. Tam Lum...
    11 KB (1,476 words) - 04:22, 14 January 2024
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    Ha Ling Peak (redirect from Chinaman's Peak)
    named Chinaman's Peak but the name was changed to be less offensive. It was the subject of a 2018 CBC Documentary titled 'Ha Ling Peak' that follows the controversy...
    5 KB (465 words) - 18:22, 27 September 2023
  • American Book Awards (category 1978 establishments in the United States)
    History of the United States Eduardo Galeano for Genesis Frank Chin for The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. Henry Louis Gates for The Signifying...
    59 KB (6,980 words) - 17:57, 1 March 2024
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    Chinaman's chance is an American idiom which means that a person has little or no chance at success, synonymous with similar idioms of improbability such...
    29 KB (3,179 words) - 03:27, 29 April 2024
  • Hua Hsu (category The New Yorker people)
    diversity and multiculturalism. He is the author of A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific. His second book, Stay True: A Memoir...
    20 KB (1,505 words) - 02:13, 22 February 2024
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    The Chinamanfish (Symphorus nematophorus), Chinaman snapper, galloper or thread-finned sea perch, is species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging...
    6 KB (714 words) - 10:25, 26 June 2024
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    Kanakas were workers (a mix of voluntary and involuntary) from various Pacific Islands employed in British colonies, such as British Columbia (Canada)...
    15 KB (1,716 words) - 23:56, 11 March 2024
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    Mokoliʻi (category Stacks of the United States)
    Mokoliʻi (pronounced [mokoˈliʔi]), also known as Chinaman's Hat, is a basalt islet in Kāneʻohe Bay, Hawaii. Mokoliʻi is part of Kualoa Regional Park and...
    7 KB (723 words) - 12:48, 5 November 2022
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    imperial era, the Empire of Japan committed numerous war crimes and crimes against humanity across various Asian-Pacific nations, notably during the Second Sino-Japanese...
    286 KB (30,418 words) - 05:21, 2 July 2024
  • Kind Gentlemen (1970), The Chickencoop Chinaman (1972), and the role of Manjiro in Stephen Sondheim & Harold Prince's Pacific Overtures (1976) – he would...
    20 KB (896 words) - 08:52, 28 April 2024
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    of this usage, including the film Platoon (1986) and the play Sticks and Bones (1971, also later filmed). The terms Chinaman and chink became intertwined...
    36 KB (3,323 words) - 13:21, 18 June 2024
  • guerrillas: it was shortened from "Victor Charlie", the radio code designation for the Viet Cong, or VC. Chinaman (US) Chinese person, used in old American west...
    122 KB (12,177 words) - 16:17, 18 June 2024
  • Nigger (redirect from The N Word)
    In the English language, nigger is a racial slur directed at black people. Starting in the 1990s, references to nigger have been increasingly replaced...
    69 KB (7,774 words) - 14:02, 11 June 2024
  • is replaced with "rail", and the phrase "chopped his head off" is changed to "chopped off his tail": Ching Chong, Chinaman, Sitting on a rail. Along came...
    40 KB (3,928 words) - 00:36, 11 June 2024
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    published in 1888. The story tells of the fortunes of a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific, and of their struggles...
    8 KB (930 words) - 21:52, 26 May 2024
  • are usually pronounced the same. The use of nigger non-pejoratively within the black community was documented in the 1912 novel The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored...
    25 KB (2,405 words) - 21:27, 27 June 2024
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    following statement: "The doctrine of the equality of man was never intended to apply to the equality of the Englishman and the Chinaman." The attorney general...
    91 KB (9,936 words) - 04:25, 25 June 2024
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