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Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History free ebook download

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Author(s):	Yunte Huang

Date:	2018-04-03	Format:	EPUB	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0871404478
Pages:	416	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:	9780871404473
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With wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of America’s most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins. Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (1811–1874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were “discovered” in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring “entertainment” to the Jacksonian mobs. Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry  their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children  and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of America’s historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the “other”?a tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself. 28 illustrationWith wry humor, Shakespearean profundity, and trenchant insight, Yunte Huang brings to life the story of Americas most famous nineteenth-century Siamese twins.

Nearly a decade after his triumphant Charlie Chan biography, Yunte Huang returns with this long-awaited portrait of Chang and Eng Bunker (18111874), twins conjoined at the sternum by a band of cartilage and a fused liver, who were discovered in Siam by a British merchant in 1824. Bringing an Asian American perspective to this almost implausible story, Huang depicts the twins, arriving in Boston in 1829, first as museum exhibits but later as financially savvy showmen who gained their freedom and traveled the backroads of rural America to bring entertainment to the Jacksonian mobs.

Their rise from subhuman, freak-show celebrities to rich southern gentry  their marriage to two white sisters, resulting in twenty-one children  and their owning of slaves, is here not just another sensational biography but a Hawthorne-like excavation of Americas historical penchant for finding feast in the abnormal, for tyrannizing the othera tradition that, as Huang reveals, becomes inseparable from American history itself.

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