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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2011
• EAN: 9781442212701
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-1270-1
• No. of pages: 246
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance > Training, job, career; Travel > Travel guides > Asia; 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