| Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Tom Carter -- Selling hope / Michael Levy -- East of nowhere, south of Heaven / Alan Paul -- Stating the obvious / Michael Meyer -- Paying tuition / Matthew Polly -- Refrains from wasteful scarcity / Matt Muller -- The shoe / Kay Bratt -- Communal parenting / Aminta Arrington -- Every thousand years / Dan Washburn -- Water, for Li-Ming / Kaitlin Solimine -- Invasive species / Jonathan Watts -- Playing in the gray / Graham Earnshaw -- View from the bridge / Peter Hessler -- Stowaway / Pete Spurrier -- Hands of stone / Jeff Fuchs -- The partitioned pot / Audra Ang -- Where there are crowds / Susan Conley -- Point of attack / Derek Sandhaus -- Diplomacy on ice / Rudy Kong -- Bu keyi! / Deborah Fallows -- Livestock / Jonathan Campbell -- The statue / Mark Kitto -- Red couplets / Jocelyn Eikenburg -- You buy me drink? / Nury Vittachi -- One of the people / Bruce Humes -- Thinking reports / Dominic Stevenson -- Empty from the outside / Susie Gordon -- Unsavory elements / Tom Carter -- Epilogue / Simon Winchester |
| Summary |
Featuring entirely original writings written exclusively for this work, this anthology is filled with 28 essays from foreigners who live or have lived in China for a significant period of time. The book contains beautiful and enlightening stories about China from such noteworthy writers as Simon Winchester, Peter Hessler, Susan Conley, and Alan Paul, among others. Through their personal stories, they illustrate the many sides of Chinese life-the weird, the fascinating, and the appalling-and share what it's like to live, learn, and love as an outsider in a land unlike any other in the world |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
TRAVEL -- Asia -- China.
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Civilization
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Manners and customs
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Travel
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| SUBJECT |
China -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024006
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China -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024186
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China -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023992
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| Subject |
China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Carter, Tom, 1973-
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| ISBN |
9789881608956 |
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9881608953 |
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9789881608918 |
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9881608910 |
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