Yin-Yang - American Perspectives on Living in China

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Alice Renouf and Mary Beth Ryan-Maher - Foreword by Terry Lautz Klappentext 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 people-students, teachers, professionals, 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 through 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. 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 to Westerners. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: China Arrival: Settling In Can Be So Unsettling Chapter 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 Chinese Chapter 5: Travel: From Shanghai Skyscrapers to the Bamboo Houses of Xishuangbanna Chapter 6: Families Coping: Babies! Rabies! Scabies! and Flu! No Problem Chapter 7: Going Home: Manzou! Zhongguo! (Take It Easy! China) Chapter 8: Epilogue: Looking Back

Product details

• Authors: Alice Renouf, Alice Ryan-Maher Renouf, Alice/ Ryan-maher Renouf
• Assisted by: Alice Renouf (Editor), Renouf Alice (Editor), Mary Beth Ryan-Maher (Editor), Mary E. Ryan-Maher (Editor), Lautz Terry (Foreword)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.01.2012
• EAN: 9781442212695
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1269-5
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, SELF-HELP / General, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, TRAVEL / Special Interest / General, Travel writing, c 2000 to c 2010, c 2000 to c 2009, Anthologies: general, Living & working abroad, Living and working in other countries: practical advice, Diaries, letters and journals, Anthologies (non-poetry), c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China, Asian Studies;China Studies;Student Resources