The Yankee Yorkshireman Riley Collins Navigating a Shanghai that was

Navigating a Shanghai that was embroiled in its own complicated history and the intricate politics marking its settlements and concessions

from the trees

Yet the ideas that animate their campaigns often arise from presumptions that reduce the girls themselves to helpless victims of gender-related forms of oppression

Marc Aidinoff

The history

The Yankee Yorkshireman Riley Collins Navigating a Shanghai that wasThis study is a textual and contextual appraisal of the writings of Yorkshire born Hedley Smith (1909 94), whose depiction of the fictional mill village of Briardale, Rhode Island, captures an early twentieth century labor diaspora peopled with textile workers. Enraged and embittered at the transformatory experience of his own emigration, Smith used fiction to explore Yorkshire immigrants' culture and stubborn refusal to assimilate, their vital