At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom

Nonfiction, Travel, Asia, China, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book At the Teahouse Café: Essays from the Middle Kingdom by Isham Cook, Isham Cook
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Author: Isham Cook ISBN: 9780986293412
Publisher: Isham Cook Publication: May 9, 2015
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Isham Cook
ISBN: 9780986293412
Publisher: Isham Cook
Publication: May 9, 2015
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

It’s 1949 at Revolutionary University. Chinese students spend all their waking hours in political meetings—when they’re not hauling feces from the latrines to the manure fields.

Jump to 2015. Chinese endure endless meetings at the hands of bosses and are required to keep their cellphones on around the clock and pick up at once—or be fined. They live in a technological utopia while enslaved by the same structures of psychological control of over half a century earlier.

Underlying the myth of a “New China” are the contemporary Middle Kingdom's numerous continuities with its past. In this collection of wide-ranging essays, Cook reaffirms the old adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

"As an American who has lived in China for many years, Cook provides insights into a culture that is notoriously opaque to outsiders, its intricacies and quirks revealing themselves only after significant immersion."--Kirkus Reviews

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It’s 1949 at Revolutionary University. Chinese students spend all their waking hours in political meetings—when they’re not hauling feces from the latrines to the manure fields.

Jump to 2015. Chinese endure endless meetings at the hands of bosses and are required to keep their cellphones on around the clock and pick up at once—or be fined. They live in a technological utopia while enslaved by the same structures of psychological control of over half a century earlier.

Underlying the myth of a “New China” are the contemporary Middle Kingdom's numerous continuities with its past. In this collection of wide-ranging essays, Cook reaffirms the old adage that the more things change, the more they stay the same.

"As an American who has lived in China for many years, Cook provides insights into a culture that is notoriously opaque to outsiders, its intricacies and quirks revealing themselves only after significant immersion."--Kirkus Reviews

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