Reading Chinese fortune cookie [electronic resource] : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / LuMing Mao.

By: Mao, LuMing, 1959-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, c2006Description: xi, 177 pSubject(s): English language -- United States -- Rhetoric | Chinese Americans -- Languages | Chinese language -- Influence on English | Language and culture -- United States | Intercultural communication -- United States | SociolinguisticsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 808/.04208951073 LOC classification: PE3102.C45 | M36 2006Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
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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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