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Yin-Yang - American Perspectives on Living in China (Paperback, New) Loot Price: R859
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Yin-Yang - American Perspectives on Living in China (Paperback, New): Alice Renouf, Mary Beth Ryan-Maher

Yin-Yang - American Perspectives on Living in China (Paperback, New)

Alice Renouf, Mary Beth Ryan-Maher; Foreword by Terry Lautz

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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 people recent 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.

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Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin: United States
Release date: November 2011
First published: November 2011
Editors: Alice Renouf • Mary Beth Ryan-Maher
Foreword by: Terry Lautz
Dimensions: 229 x 154 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 246
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-1270-1
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Collections & anthologies of various literary forms
Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > Living & working abroad
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General
Books > Travel > Travel writing > General
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LSN: 1-4422-1270-5
Barcode: 9781442212701

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