The adventures of Eddie Fung :Chinatown kid, Texas cowboy, prisoner of war
- 作者: Fung, Eddie,
- 其他作者: Yung, Judy.
- 出版: Seattle : University of Washington Press ©2007.
- 稽核項: xxv, 227 pages :illustrations, maps ;23 cm.
- 標題: Prisoners of war , Soldiers United States -- Biography. , Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) , World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. , San Francisco (Calif.) Biography. , Fung, Eddie, , Prisoners of war Burma -- Biography. , Chinese Americans , World War, 1939-1945 Participation, Chinese American. , Chinatown (San Francisco, Calif.) Biography. , Participation, Chinese American. , Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. , Fung, Eddie, 1922- , San Francisco (Calif.) , Prisoners of war United States -- Biography. , World War, 1939-1945 , Cowboys , Soldiers , Cowboys Texas -- Biography. , Chinese Americans Biography.
- ISBN: 0295987545 , 9780295987545
- 附註: 旅美舞蹈家王仁璐教授2016年捐贈. Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-222) and index. Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-222) and index. Growing up in Chinatown -- A Chinese cowboy in Texas -- A good soldier -- A prisoner of the Japanese -- A POW survivor -- Learning to live with myself.
- 摘要: "Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir written with his wife, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle." "Working under brutal slave labor conditions, the men completed the railroad in fourteen months, at the cost of 12,500 POW and 70,000 Asian lives. Eddie lived to tell how his background helped him endure forty-two months of humiliation and cruelty and how his experiences as the sole Chinese American member of the most decorated Texan unit of any war shaped his later life."--Jacket.
- 系統號: 005265609
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese durjing World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir written with his wife, Eddie tells how his childhood in San Francisco's Chinatown and young manhood as a Texas cowboy helped him survive.
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