CHINA Expatriate Reading

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	"Arriving in China in the early 1900’s and setting up shop as journalist, entrepreneur and political consultant, Carl Crow is THE expat of all China expats."

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	"Blonde Lotus just might become the bible to female expats in China. Gamst Berg blazes a trail of broken hearts and weed smoke as she gets in one ribald adventure after another from Beijing to HK."

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	"Just might be the funniest if not first autobiography ever penned by a drug-addicted foreigner in China."

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	"Earnshaw makes it a point of de-fixing himself at least once a month from Shanghai to walk in the countryside and "speak to the Real China.""

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	"A China backpacker’s essential, Theroux gives an amusing, ill-tempered account of time spent on China’s vast railway network."

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	"One of the original Laowai Memoirs, Salzman arrived in 1980's China to teach English and then turned to studying martial arts."

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	"Hessler has beaten everyone to the punch with his musings on modern China, rendering all our blogs obsolete. River Town was his first book."

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	"A popular installment in the Laowai Memoirs genre, DeWoskin cleverly blends a Sex & The City-esque female perspective with Lost In Translation-style musings as an expat gal."

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	"Any expat living in Beijing or Shanghai the past decade will have witnessed the wholesale destruction of those cities’ most scenic neighborhoods: the hutong."

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	"A nice little collection of visual and verbal nostalgia for those of us expats who have come to call Beijing home.  Poetry, essays and photography contributed by a colorful cast of locals and expats."

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	"Needham offers a unique perspective on Chinese culture as a foreign journalist working for the Communist Party’s official mouthpiece, China Daily."

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	"English Teachers in the P.R.C. (and their students) will cherish this riveting account of an American woman’s experiences as a Yingwen Laoshi in post-Cultural Revolution China."

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	"Downey is an American female arriving in China as an English teacher forced to deal with cultural differences and (her favorite topic) disgusting Chinese toilets."

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	"A highly-praised account of (yes, yet another) female English teacher in China. Jakobson offers deep, insightful annotations on politics, education and humanity in 1990’s P.R.C."

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	"China is a food culture, and western expats and tourists delight in the affordable yet abundant cuisines all the while shaking their heads at the use of any and every last ingredient."

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	"Pearl of China is the best of both worlds: a fictional account of Buck’s life growing up in China, with the twists and turns that only Min could imagine."

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	"Of the many Kung Fu training schools atop Shaolin, one is hard-pressed to spot a Waiguoren amongst the colorful legions of track-suit wearing students who populate their venerable courtyards."

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	"Nothing says “westerner” more than the Holiday Inn.  This laugh-out-loud true story of a foreign capitalist attempting to manage the famous America hotel chain in, of all places, Lhasa."

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	"Curious why New China was such a failure at industrialization?  So was noted Sinologist Joseph Needham (1900-1995) who came to China to pursue science and civilization."

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	"For China expats keen on reaping wealth in the world’s fastest growing economy, you will need to know not a little about Chinese culture itself; Guanxi and Putonghua could stand between you fortune."

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	"There is no end to advice books for westerners doing business in China.  The issue is, then, which ones are actually helpful, which ones are still valid in ever-fluid P.R.C."

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	"No, the most famous laowai in China is not Dashan, it is Sir Robert Hart.  No, the founder of modern China was not Deng Xiaoping, it was Hart!"

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	"Mark Kitto is famous amongst Beijing and Shanghai expat scribes like myself for having his successful multi-million dollar "That's" magazine empire stolen from him by the government."

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	"If you only have room for one book during your backpacking journey across the Middle Kingdom, make it this 800-page opus about Marco Polo."

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	"No China expat's bookshelf is complete without this definitive collection of over 800 photos from the 33 provinces of the P.R.C., the most comprehensive book of photography on China ever published."