Officiële naam: Kang, Hildegarde
Geboortedatum: 1934
Overlijdensdatum: 2019-10-09
Geslacht: female
Nationaliteit: USA
Geboorteplaats: Oakland, California, USA
Woonplaatsen: Clarence Center, New York
Livermore, California, USA
Troy, New York, USA
Opleiding: University of California, Berkeley
Beroepen: teacher
Relaties: Kang, Sang-Wook (husband)
Korte biografie: Hildi Kang is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and as an educator, she taught elementary Special Education. Her writing includes five books for elementary teachers, and entry in Fire and Wings, the dragon anthology of Cricket Books, and two academic books on Korean history.

When not writing or traveling, she hikes, bikes, and plays cello in a local orchestra. She and her family lived many years in the town of Clarence Center near Buffalo, New York, and currently reside in Livermore, California. [from Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan (2012)]

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Chengli and the Silk Road caravan door Hildi Kang

In this incredible chapter book, we are following alongside Chengli who is traveling the silk road in hopes of finding out more information about his father. This is definitely a story for older, more advanced, students because of the language being used and also because of the length of the story. The story itself is important and insightful, with the reader being able to learn a lot about Chinese culture and about the silk road. This would be an excellent read-aloud novel or even an individual read for the students. My only complaint would be the lack of images, but it does not hinder the ability to imagine what is going on within the story.… (meer)

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Chengli and the Silk Road Caravan door Hildi Kang

I enjoyed the story but I wish it had either been shorter or moved quicker. It touches in some important themes, and exposes younger readers to a time and culture they may be unfamiliar with. Good read overall.

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Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial… door Hildi Kang

This is exactly what you want this type of book to be. Surprising, eye-opening, reliable, well-edited and jaw-dropping. If you are the least bit curious as to why your Korean grandmother hates all things Japanese, pick this book up. If you are in the pursuit of scholarly research and you need some oral history recollections, these are gold. The author has done extremely well in translating, arranging, presenting and setting historical context for each chapter.

Some stories are just a paragraph long while others go one for pages. Despite the sample being taken from elderly Koreans living in the American west coast, the people interviewed are amazing diverse and well-represented. The stories are captivating, earnest and beautifully told. I can't imagine how the stories must have sounded in the original language because the English translation is simply breathtaking.

The reader may find it unusual to hear that many Koreans became civilized or even friends with Japanese living in their towns during this period. The honesty of the interviewees runs counter to the widespread belief that all Japanese were zealous conquerors bent on world domination. Don't misunderstand, some of the stories indeed paint a terrible picture in terms of cultural repression, but as mentioned before, the book is well-balanced.

My only disappointment was the short length of the book. That's it. It's readable by anyone with a passing interest in Japanese colonial history. It's what you want - a collection of stories that completes any academic background you might have read.

Simply a gem.… (meer)

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matthew254 | 1 andere bespreking | Nov 20, 2011 |

Under the Black Umbrella: Voices from Colonial… door Hildi Kang

An important compilation of narratives from Koreans who speak about the japanese occupation and how it affected their lives.

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