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eBook details
- Title: Chicken Same Duck Talk: Diary of an Australian in China
- Author : Asheg Brom
- Release Date : January 23, 2019
- Genre: Asia,Books,Travel & Adventure,Specialty Travel,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 475 KB
Description
Thinking of teaching in China?
I wasn’t either!
Regardless, not only did life take me there, but also my expected one-year teaching stint turned into a nearly decade-long stay, for reasons which all lie within the pages of this highly accessible travelogue.
Whether you’re planning to teach, do business with, make friends with or marry a Chinese person, this book gives useful insights into their language, culture, cities, customs, food, education system and business practices. Why? Because I knew NOTHING about these things before going – therefore, you learn it all with me, as I did, discovery by discovery.
Thirteen years in the making, and very personally written, this is an average Australian’s reaction to street-level life in contemporary China – the good and the bad, the beautiful and the not-so-beautiful, the euphoric and the what-the-hell-was-that, all laced with a dry, somewhat absurdist sense of humour.
Very importantly, I didn’t go straight to Shanghai or Beijing - I travelled extensively, and saw the real China, not just the westernised metropolises. Places like Nanjing, Yangzhou, Suzhou, Luoyang, Yangshuo, Chimahu, Wuhan, Xuancheng and Yulin gave me a more rounded view of a country that’s very hard to generalise about, and, of course, this knowledge goes straight to you, the reader.