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canb
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 Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 6:38 pm Post subject: Suggested readings |
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| I am certain this particular topic has been covered. However, seaching comes up with a thousand unhelpful responses. I am looking for books related to teaching English, teaching English in China and books on Chinese culture. Anything beyond Wild Swans and River Town? I've enjoyed them both and learned from them, but I still have time in the States and I want to keep the pages turning. Let me know what books have helped you. Thank you. |
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mlomker
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canb
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| Thanks. That one has been a helpful post. Anyone have anything else to add? Textbooks are great, but it'd be nice to read some personal accounts of westerners in China. |
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gengrant
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Steppenwolf
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:40 am Post subject: Re: Suggested readings |
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| canb wrote: |
| I Anything beyond Wild Swans and River Town? I've enjoyed them both and learned from them, but I still have time in the States and I want to keep the pages turning. Let me know what books have helped you. Thank you. |
I have just finished reading
Between Two Worlds
Lessons in SHanghai
By George Wang and Betty Barr.
Seems to be published by a self-publishing house, .
Old China Hand Press, Hong Kong.
It's a fascinating tale of a Chinese man born sometime in the 1920s
that ended up marrying his British-born future wife, Margareth Schofield (so much for Chinese prejudice!), who bore him a son and lived with her Chinese family through the 1950s into Deng Xiaoping's new era; she died in 1983, and George then married...his second British wife, a good friend of MFargareths...
The book tells you quite a bit about socialist China and how the Cultural Revolution affected this binational family. NOtable: the two main characters - as well as George's second wife - were English teachers. |
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