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Mao, LuMing, 1959-

Reading Chinese fortune cookie the making of Chinese American rhetoric / [electronic resource] : LuMing Mao. - Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, c2006. - xi, 177 p.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-175) and index.

Introduction : thinking through paradoxes -- Opening topics : reading Chinese fortune cookie -- Face to face : Chinese and European American -- Indirection versus directness : a relation of complementarity -- Terms of contact reconfigured : ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism -- From classroom to community : Chinese American rhetoric on the ground -- Closing comment : Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
English language--Rhetoric.--United States
Chinese Americans--Languages.
Chinese language--Influence on English.
Language and culture--United States.
Intercultural communication--United States.
Sociolinguistics.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PE3102.C45 / M36 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 808/.04208951073