A Bend in the Yellow River
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1998
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Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7538-0114-7 (ISBN)
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (Verlag)
978-0-7538-0114-7 (ISBN)
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Justine Hill's wonderful account of two years spent in China - a unique view of a very different way of life.
Justin Hill was only twenty-one when he arrived starry-eyed in Yuncheng, central China, a small town hidden among the plains of dusty Shanxi province. He was greeted by a place and people designed to shatter the most tightly held of illusions about the glories of Chinese tradition and culture: an ugly grimy town where spitting in public was encouraged and queuing was anathema, where the local TV output consisted of nightly readings of the works of Deng Xiao Ping interspersed with NBA basketball games. But after two years teaching Yuncheng's inhabitants he emerged knowing that nowhere was more authentically Chinese than this outpost nestling in the bend of the Yellow River, battling the contradictions of past and future with robust good humour.
Justin Hill was only twenty-one when he arrived starry-eyed in Yuncheng, central China, a small town hidden among the plains of dusty Shanxi province. He was greeted by a place and people designed to shatter the most tightly held of illusions about the glories of Chinese tradition and culture: an ugly grimy town where spitting in public was encouraged and queuing was anathema, where the local TV output consisted of nightly readings of the works of Deng Xiao Ping interspersed with NBA basketball games. But after two years teaching Yuncheng's inhabitants he emerged knowing that nowhere was more authentically Chinese than this outpost nestling in the bend of the Yellow River, battling the contradictions of past and future with robust good humour.
Justin Hill is the author of one previous work, A Bend in the Yellow River. Born in 1971, he worked with VSO and lived in China for many years.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.2.1998 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 B/W Photo/Illu(s) |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 257 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Asien |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7538-0114-0 / 0753801140 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7538-0114-7 / 9780753801147 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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