ASIN: B00X5SC80E
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 250
Here is a frank, personal, and funny account of a young American's confused plunge into the unfamiliar world of small-town Fujian. Working as an English teacher at a university in Sanming (the city's name means "three brightnesses") in southern China's Fujian Province, William Shoemaker explores the personal challenges that go along with uprooting one's life to move to a far-away place--and the at times humiliating, exhilarating, and exhausting task of learning Chinese and coming to know, and love, China. In a narrative that remains light and accessible while providing context on the state of affairs in modern China, Shoemaker tells the story of a handful of ordinary Chinese citizens: a middle class father willing to compromise his ideals to get rich, a single mom struggling to provide a secure future for her daughter, and a stuck-in-a-rut Chinese teacher haunted by a tragic past. Three ...
