Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Mao, LuMing

Titel

Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie : the Making of Chinese American Rhetoric

Ort / Verlag

Logan : Utah State University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Introduction: thinking through paradoxes -- 1. Opening topics: reading Chinese fortune cookie -- 2. Face to face: Chinese and European American -- 3. Indirection versus directness: a relation of complementarity -- 4. Terms of contact reconfigured: ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism -- 5. From classroom to community: Chinese American rhetoric on the ground -- 6. Closing comment: Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again
• LuMing Mao offers an important discussion of the rhetoric of Chinese American speakers, which has wide implications for the teaching of writing in English and for our understanding of cross-cultural influences in discourse