TY  - BOOK
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Yin-yang: American perspectives on living in China
PB  - Rowman & Littlefield Publ.
CY  - Lanham, Md. [u.a.]
KW  - Americans
KW  - China
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Travel and description
AB  - "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. 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"--
SN  - 9781442212701
LA  - English
N1  - ed. by Alice Renouf and Mary Beth Ryan-Maher
ID  - 667123539
ER  -