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Nonfiction. Peter Hessler, a Peace Corps volunteer, went to teach English literature at a teacher's college in Fuling, China, a small city of 250,000 along the Yangtze River. Hessler alternates descriptions of his daily adventures in Fuling with character studies of its notable, colorful, and sometimes wacky residents. By far the most brilliant aspect of River Town is the way in which Hessler uses his students' own words to provide insight into the experiences of a new generation of Chinese people and their perspectives on communism, democracy, America, civil liberties, and the great protagonists of English literature. |
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The Chinese
by Jasper Becker
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pub. Date: February 2002
ISBN-13: 9780195149401 |
Nonfiction. China's 1.25 billion people comprise nearly a quarter of the world's population. More people live in China than in North America, the European Union, and the former Soviet countries combined. But what do we really know about these millions of people? And what is the future of their frequently misunderstood, increasingly powerful country? In The Chinese, Jasper Becker, China's premier resident western correspondent, strips the country of its myths and captures the Chinese as they really live. For nearly two decades Becker has lived in China, and reported from areas where western journalists are forbidden. |
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Mr. China
by Tom Clissold
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date: February 2006
ISBN-13: 9780641830259 |
| Nonfiction. Mr. China tells the rollicking story of one man's encounter with the Chinese. Armed with hundreds of millions of dollars British businessman Tom Clissold had a strong sense that he and his partners were descending into the industrial past to bring the Chinese into the modern world, Instead, Clissold got the education of a lifetime. The ordinary Chinese workers, business owners, local bureaucrats, and party cadres Clissold encountered were some of the most committed, resourceful, and creative operators he would ever meet. They were happy to take the foreigner's money but resisted just about anything else. In the end, Mr.China is one man's coming-of-age story where he learns to respect and admire the nation he sought to conquer. |
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China’s Global Reach: Markets, Multinationals, and Globalization
by George Zhibin Gu and Andre Gunder Frank
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Publisher: Fultus Corporation
Pub. Date: July 2006
ISBN-13: 9781596820937 |
| Nonfiction. China's new economic surge is a surprise to all, but this ancient land remains a myth to both foreigners and Chinese. Get the inside story from a Chinese journalist/consultant about China's business, society, and politics under globalization and capitalism. This revised volume gives an insider's analysis on what's behind China's surge and its implications to the world. It covers key global issues such as manufacturing and job transfers, Chinese multinationals vs. global giants, and changing production, trade and investment trends, as well as evolving international relations. |
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Communicating Effectively with the Chinese
by Ge Gao and Stella Ting-Toomey
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Pub. Date: June 1998
ISBN-13: 9780803970021
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| .Nonfiction. To help professionals and academics understand prevalent cultural assumptions underlying everyday Chinese communication, this resource examines how self-conception, role and hierarchy, relational dynamics, and face affect ways of conducting conversations in Chinese culture. Offers explanations of why miscommunication between Chinese and North Americans takes place, and suggests ways to better interact with Chinese. |
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
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Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date: September 2006
ISBN-13: 9780143038092 |
Fiction. The ``joy luck club'' is a mah jong/storytelling support group formed by four Chinese women in San Francisco in 1949. Years later, when member Suyuan Woo dies, her daughter is asked to take her place at the mah jong table. With chapters alternating between the mothers and the daughters of the group, we hear stories of the old times and the new; as parents struggle to adjust to America, their American children must struggle with the confusion of having immigrant parents. (Library Journal) |
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The Concubine's Children
by Denise Chong
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Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date: January 1996
ISBN-13: 9780140254273 |
| Nonfiction. The ethos of family is dramatically portrayed by Denise Chong in this tale of her grandmother, brought from China as a young concubine by an immigrant to the New World, of the man's wife and the children who would be left behind, and of the author's own incredible discovery of those children six decades later. Here is a true story, woven from letters, photographs, and memories, with more twists and turns than any novel. It was the author, whose curiosity about some old photographs, who ultimately reunited this family that had been divided for most of this century. |
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On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
by Lisa See
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Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Pub. Date: September 1996
ISBN-13: 9780679768524 |
| Nonfiction. When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family's antiques store in Los Angeles's Chinatown. There, her grand-mother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colorful stories about their family's Chinese-American past - stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination. As an adult, See spent five years collecting the details of her family's remarkable history and discovering the intimate nuances of her ancestors' lives. |
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American Paper Son: A Chinese Immigrant in the Midwest
by Wayne Hung Wong
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date: November 2005
ISBN-13: 978025207263 |
| Nonfiction. During the height of racist anti-Chinese U.S. immigration laws, illegal aliens were able to come into the United States under false papers identifying them as the son of those who had returned to China to marry and have children. American Paper Son is the story of one such Chinese immigrant who came to Wichita, Kansas, in 1935 as a thirteen-year-old “paper son” to help in his father’s restaurant there. This vivid first-person account of a hidden chapter in Asian American history addresses multiple themes through the lens of Wong’s personal stories. Rich with poignant insights into the realities of life as part of a very small Chinese American population in a Midwestern town, this memoir provides an important new view of the Asian American experience away from the West Coast. |
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