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Laowai for Sale

Author : Kurt M. DiClementi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503555674
Total Pages : 1081 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Laowai for Sale written by Kurt M. DiClementi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 1081 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My recently completed novel entitled Laowai for Sale was written in the genre of realistic fiction, first-person omniscient. The plot of the story is the moral, financial, and spiritual bankruptcy of the American people as represented by the storys four main characters in China and the president of the United States in America. While the four main characters in China represent the hope that America can prevail against adversity and reclaim its legacy as the greatest nation on earth, the character of the president represents an America that is willing to mortgage its soul for sensual satisfaction with the risk of losing its identity and position on the world stage. These ideas are conveyed through satire and comedy in the character dialogue. The storys protagonist, John Winston, is an Aspergers syndrome savant with a photographic memory who attained material success through his musical ability and encyclopedic capacity for knowledge on all things regarding American pop music. Unfortunately, he lost everything, as did many others in the economic times that are characteristic of todays US economy. Because of the limited social skills associated with his disability, Winston descends into a downward spiral that resulted in his isolation and drinking. Then he is whisked away to China with three other main characters in a government program to stem the mounting crisis of an unemployment rate that has exceeded 50 percent. This crisis seriously threatens the US presidents chances for a second term in office, so his chief of staff devises a plan, using the CIA, to initiate a massive, wholesale exportation of Americas unemployed labor force to China as English teachers in order to rapidly change the unemployment statistics.

Billions of Enterpreneurs: How

Author : Khanna
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0143067532
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Billions of Enterpreneurs: How written by Khanna and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

South of the Clouds

Author : John D. Kuhns
Publisher : Post Hill Press
ISBN 13 : 1682613739
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book South of the Clouds written by John D. Kuhns and published by Post Hill Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Recession of 2008 humbled many good men. Once featured on the front pages of New York’s business and society papers, Jack Davis had spiraled downward in the aftermath of the crisis. How far will someone go to get their reputation back? Jack is about to find out. Exiled to the last remnant of his investment empire—a rusty silicon smelter in the Chinese jungle north of the Burmese border—his comeback seems far-fetched. But it’s either take his best shot or crawl away from the world in shame. At first, his prospects appear grim. Asked when they could earn a profit, his general manager answered, “In China, no one make money in regular business. Make money other ways.” When Jack discovers his employees are using the company’s trucks to run jade from Burma over the border to China, his first instinct is to clean house—until he learns they’re making more money running jade than he is smelting silicon. Jack’s jade buyer tries to warn him. “The problem is, it’s never just running jade,” the man said. “Jade leads to other things way beyond your control. You’re a foreigner, for God’s sake.” Set in a dangerous, once-obscure corner of the world that has recently vaulted to prominence, South of the Clouds tells the story of an American forced to choose, not between right and wrong—“there’s no legal here”—but between the predictable and the unknown, between a stale life or one with Mei, the beautiful karaoke girl with a past, and the woman he loves. Wall Street isn’t only about greed and cynicism. There are heroes there too.

Billions of Entrepreneurs

Author : Tarun Khanna
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 142216327X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Billions of Entrepreneurs written by Tarun Khanna and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China and India are home to one-third of the world's population. And they're undergoing social and economic revolutions that are capturing the best minds--and money--of Western business. In Billions of Entrepreneurs, Tarun Khanna examines the entrepreneurial forces driving China's and India's trajectories of development. He shows where these trajectories overlap and complement one another--and where they diverge and compete. He also reveals how Western companies can participate in this development. Through intriguing comparisons, the author probes important differences between China and India in areas such as information and transparency, the roles of capital markets and talent, public and private property rights, social constraints on market forces, attitudes toward expatriates abroad and foreigners at home, entrepreneurial and corporate opportunities, and the importance of urban and rural communities. He explains how these differences will influence China's and India's future development, what the two countries can learn from each other, and how they will ultimately reshape business, politics, and society in the world around them. Engaging and incisive, this book is a critical resource for anyone working in China or India or planning to do business in these two countries.

Heart Radical

Author : Anne Liu Kellor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1647421748
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Heart Radical written by Anne Liu Kellor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wanting to understand how her path is tied to her mother tongue, Anne, a young, multiracial American woman, travels through China, the country of her mother’s birth. Along the way, she tries on different roles—seeker, teacher, student, girlfriend, artist, and daughter—and continually asks herself: Why do I feel called to make this journey? Whether witnessing a Tibetan sky burial, teaching English at a university in Chengdu, visiting her grandmother in LA, or falling in love with a Chinese painter, Anne is always in pursuit of intimacy with others, even as she is all too aware of her silences and separation. For two years, she settles into a comfortable routine in her boyfriend’s apartment and regains fluency in Chinese, a language she spoke as a young child but has used less and less as an adult. Eventually, however, her desire to know herself in other ways surfaces again. She misses speaking English, she feels suffocated by urban, polluted China, and she starts to fall for another man. Ultimately, Anne realizes that to live her truth as a mixed-race, bilingual woman she must embrace all of her influences and layers. In a world that often wants us to choose a side or fit an ideal, she learns that she can both belong and not belong wherever she is, and that home is ultimately found within.

Beijing Review

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Beijing Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wounded Muse

Author : Robert F Delaney
Publisher : Mosaic Press
ISBN 13 : 1771613289
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book The Wounded Muse written by Robert F Delaney and published by Mosaic Press. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qiang returns to his homeland of China from Silicon Valley to find Beijing undergoing a chaotic transformation in the lead up to hosting the 2008 Olympic Games. Wrecking balls are knocking down entire neighborhoods to make way for new structures more in line with the government's vision of a modern China. The tumult inspires Qiang to shoot a documentary about the loss of affordable housing, which draws the attention of public security officials. When Qiang is suddenly arrested by local police, it falls on his friend Jake, an American journalist who admires Qiang and his work, to try to figure out how to end the detention. With few options, Jake enlists the help of those he's not sure he can trust. Dawei, a Chinese itinerant Jake befriended years earlier, returns to Beijing in the midst of a cat-and-mouse game Jake is playing with the authorities to retrieve a memento that has suddenly become extremely valuable. Dawei becomes ensnared in a plan to force the authorities to release Qiang, and Jake must then decide who survives. Based on real events, Robert F. Delaney's The Wounded Muse takes readers to a city and country undergoing a transformation on a scale previously unseen, where in the shadowed wreckage of forgotten communities people are pushed to psychological extremes to secure their position.

Tavern

Author : Bryan John Farrell
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1639370560
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Tavern written by Bryan John Farrell and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tavern By: Bryan John Farrell Tavern: A Historical Novel Based Upon An Early San Francisco Saloon And The Family That Operated It describes an underachiever inheriting his family’s saloon. In the process of dealing with the sale, he must make a choice between a woman’s love and his slacker lifestyle.

Made it in China

Author : Cann Simon
Publisher : Simon Cann
ISBN 13 : 0956117708
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book Made it in China written by Cann Simon and published by Simon Cann. This book was released on 2009 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine entrepreneurs talk about how they grew their companies in China. Their stories are both practical and entertaining, combining firsthand anecdotes about the challenges they faced and how these were met.

Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China

Author : Loretta Wing Wah Ho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135256578
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China written by Loretta Wing Wah Ho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as China continues to open up to global power relations. Equally important, the book will 1) sharpen knowledge of China’s recent socio-economic change and political agenda, 2) build a greater awareness of Chinese cultural, sexual and ethical values and 3) offer new perspectives on ‘Chineseness’ and Chinese same-sex identity. Uniquely, it explores the emergence of Chinese same-sex identity through understanding the everyday, lived same-sex experience, amid China’s opening up to cultural, sexual and economic globalisation. This understanding is based on a culturally sensitive framework which accommodates the diverse and sometimes paradoxical articulation of same-sex identity in urban China. It come sto the conclusion that same–sex identity in china is articulated in a paradoxical way: open and decentred, but at the same time, nationalist and conforming to state control. This book will be of interest to scholar and students in Chinese studies, Gender Studies, sexuality and cultural studies.

Shanghai Baby

Author : Wei Hui Zhou
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1780337566
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Shanghai Baby written by Wei Hui Zhou and published by Constable. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a café waitress, who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive, impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, Coco moves in with him, leaves her job and throws herself into writing. Shortly afterwards she meets Mark, a married Westerner. The two are uncontrollably attracted and begin a highly charged, physical affair. Torn between her two lovers, and tormented by her deceit, her unfinished novel and the conflicting feelings involved in love and betrayal, Coco begins to find out who she really is. Here is a beautifully written novel with a distinct voice that describes China on the brink of its own social and sexual revolution.

But... This is China!

Author : May BanFa
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1105693686
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book But... This is China! written by May BanFa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is China, usually accompanied by a big sigh of frustration, is the phrase used by many foreigners to explain the random, hilarious and sometimes anger inducing reality of living here. It's also the phrase that can help calm frayed nerves and put everything into perspective. But... This is China is also the most common response you'll get from Chinese friends and colleagues when you push for an explanation about something that, no matter how hard you try, you will never understand because you're looking at it through a foreigner's eyes. This book is written from the perspective of one foreigner who acknowledged the crazy China moments, who sometimes adapted, was often confused and frustrated, yet still managed to fall in love with the people and culture. With a dose of reality and some practical advice, you'll find that you can survive similar challenges as well! Because, remember But... This is China and anything can happen!

American Shaolin

Author : Matthew Polly
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781592402625
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book American Shaolin written by Matthew Polly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laced with humor and illuminated by cultural insight, this coming-of-age tale explores one young American's quest to become a kung fu master at China's legendary Shaolin Temple. 8-page photo insert.

Chinese Espresso

Author : Grazia Ting Deng
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691245797
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Chinese Espresso written by Grazia Ting Deng and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why and how local coffee bars in Italy—those distinctively Italian social and cultural spaces—have been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008 Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural product—so much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO’s official list of intangible heritages of humanity. The coffee bar is a cornerstone of Italian urban life, with city residents sipping espresso at more than 100,000 of these local businesses throughout the country. And yet, despite its nationalist bona fides, espresso in Italy is increasingly prepared by Chinese baristas in Chinese-managed coffee bars. In this book, Grazia Ting Deng explores the paradox of “Chinese espresso”—the fact that this most distinctive Italian social and cultural tradition is being preserved by Chinese immigrants and their racially diverse clientele. Deng investigates the conditions, mechanisms, and implications of the rapid spread of Chinese-owned coffee bars in Italy since the Great Recession of 2008. Drawing on her extensive ethnographic research in Bologna, Deng describes an immigrant group that relies on reciprocal and flexible family labor to make coffee, deploying local knowledge gleaned from longtime residents who have come, sometimes resentfully, to regard this arrangement as a new normal. The existence of Chinese espresso represents new features of postmodern and postcolonial urban life in a pluralistic society where immigrants assume traditional roles even as they are regarded as racial others. The story of Chinese baristas and their patrons, Deng argues, transcends the dominant Eurocentric narrative of immigrant-host relations, complicating our understanding of cultural dynamics and racial formation within the shifting demographic realities of the Global North.

The Man in the Middle (Marketeer One)

Author : Adrian Liley
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244262950
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The Man in the Middle (Marketeer One) written by Adrian Liley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China

Author : Xiaobo Su
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135256217
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China written by Xiaobo Su and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China’s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and contest one another to ready Lijiang for tourist consumption. Using rich material from insightful interviews and quantitative data, the authors show how complex tourism development can be even as it strives to do good for the community. Su and Teo investigate the practices of contestation and negotiation of identity within Lijiang; analyze the negotiations that transform material and vernacular landscapes; and suggests strategies that will enable sustained tourism interest in this location. Linking Gramsci’s theory on hegemony to the cultural politics of space, this book has two major strengths: it establishes a theoretical framework to conceptualize power relations in tourism space and provides critical insights into the rapidly shifting socio-political landscape of contemporary China. Comparisons with other Chinese heritage sites are also provided. By addressing the power struggles inevitable in the process of tourism development, The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China provides an innovative understanding of China’s dynamic politics in a period of transition. As such, it will address the needs of students and academic scholars working in the fields of China studies, tourism, cultural studies, urban studies, sociology, geography, political science and heritage studies.

DK Eyewitness China

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756693284
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (566 download)

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Download or read book DK Eyewitness China written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide China helps you get the most from your visit to this country. You'll find in-depth detail on all the important sights with maps, photos and illustrations. There's suggestions for restaurants and hotels for every budget plus advice on seeing gardens, national parks, tours, architecture, temples, festivals, shops, museums and palaces. Information on tours, cruises and tips on getting around make exploring the country effortless. The guide comes packed with photographs, illustrations and maps plus reviews and listings for hotels, restaurants and bars for all budgets. Visiting China becomes a lot easier with maps of all major sights, plus walks, scenic routes and thematic tours and sights, markets and festivals listed town by town. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide China- showing you what others only tell you.