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Americans in China
Asia
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Category=WTL
China reform era
China travel
Chinese culture
Chinese society
Chinese studies in America
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eq_history
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Everyday life in China
Mao's China
PRC
Sino-American relations
study abroad
studying China
Travelling in China
U.S. China experts
US-China relations
Product details
- ISBN 9781538123706
- Weight: 263g
- Dimensions: 149 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 08 Feb 2019
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This unique book is the first to bring together a group of influential China experts to reflect on their cultural and social encounters while travelling and living in the People’s Republic. Filling an important gap, it allows scholars, journalists, and businesspeople to reflect on their personal memories of China. Private experiences—vivid and often entirely unanticipated—often teach more about how a society actually works than a planned course of study can. Such experiences can also expose the sometimes naïve misconceptions visitors often bring with them to China. China experts relate stories that are always interesting but also more: they tell not just anecdotes but telling anecdotes. Why are there no campus maps? (Because, if you don’t know where you’re going and why, you don’t need to be here.) What’s the allure of Mickey Mouse? (He could break all sorts of rules and get away with it.) What’s a sworn brother in China? (Somebody who fights for your honor even when you’re not looking.) Covering nearly a half-century from 1971 to the present, these stories open a vivid window on a rapidly evolving China and on the zigzag learning curve of the China trippers themselves.
Jeremy A. Murray is Associate Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino.
Perry Linkis Chancellorial Chair for Teaching Across Disciplines at the University of California, Riverside.
Paul G. Pickowicz is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego.
