Yin-Yang (eBook)

American Perspectives on Living in China

Alice Renouf, Mary Beth Ryan-Maher (Herausgeber)

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2011
224 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-1271-8 (ISBN)

Infos

China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspectives and locales for Westerners considering the leap. This unique collection of letters offers a rarely seen, intimate, and refreshingly honest view of living and working in China. Woven through this correspondence is the compelling theme of outsiders coping in a culture that is vastly foreign to them and the underlying love-hate struggle it engenders. These tales of trials, successes, and failures offer invaluable insight into a country that remains endlessly fascinating.

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China has become one of the largest study and teach-abroad, travel, and business destinations in the world. Yet few books offer a diversity of perspectives and locales for Westerners considering the leap. This unique collection of letters offers a rarely seen, intimate, and refreshingly honest view of living and working in China. Here, ordinary peoplerecent college graduates, teachers, professors, engineers, lawyers, computer whizzes, and parents recount their experiences in venues ranging from classrooms to marketplaces to holy mountains. The writers are genuine participants in the daily life of their adopted country, and woven throughout their correspondence is the compelling theme of outsiders coping in a culture that is vastly foreign to them and the underlying love-hate struggle it engenders. We follow their initial highs; the shift to general discomfort and then to full-blown culture shock; and slowly, the return of a sense of balance, identity, and normalcy; and finally, the decision to return home or stay. Written in a down-to-earth, personal, often humorous, always authentic style, these tales of trials, successes, and failures offer invaluable insight into a country that remains endlessly fascinating.

Autor

Alice Renouf has been the executive director of the Colorado China Council since the late 1970s. Mary Beth Ryan-Maher is a freelance writer who taught in Kunming, China, and co-led the Colorado China Council’s Shanghai Summer Institute for new teachers.

Inhalt

Chapter 1: China Arrival: Settling In Can Be So UnsettlingChapter 2: Teaching: A Seriously Exhausting Endeavor!Chapter 3: Cross-Cultural Experiences: Which Side of the Mirror Am I On?Chapter 4: Day-to-Day Living: Think Chinese, Be ChineseChapter 5: Travel: From Shanghai Skyscrapers to the Bamboo Houses of XishuangbannaChapter 6: Families Coping: Babies, Rabies, Scabies, and Flu, No ProblemChapter 7: Going Home: Manzou, Zhongguo! (Take It Easy, China)Chapter 8: Epilogue: Looking Back

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.12.2011
• Vorwort: Terry Lautz
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Bewerbung / Karriere
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Schlagworte: Asian Studies • China Studies • Student Resources
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-1271-3 / 1442212713
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1271-8 / 9781442212718