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| | Product Details | | Author: | Liu Zongren | | Paperback: | 232 pages | | Publisher: | China Books | | Publication Date: | January 01, 1988 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 083512035X | | Product Width: | 1.37 centimeters | | Product Height: | 2.12 centimeters | | Product Weight: | 0.01 pounds | | Package Length: | 8.2 inches | | Package Width: | 5.2 inches | | Package Height: | 0.6 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.6 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 4 reviews |
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Two Years In The Melting Pot Nov 21, 2002
As of you always heard people saying America is the melting pot, or a salad bowl, well this book tells the story of a Chinese man learn what it is to be and how hard it is to adapted to another culture. As the heart broken story start with him leaving his home of his family and children are waiting for him when he get back from his educational journey. Nearing half of his life away, he have leave home many times some times even long and much more dangerous then this journey to America but everyone still strong, but the story, the author have his way of describing the sadness of leaving his home and his family.
Liu Zongren shown a lot of honesty in himself with other, and also the humor of how the author describe the ways that he adapted to the American ways with his many questions of the cultures he barely know and soon be leaving again. As the author dealing with cultures shock you will be drawn into the book and soon you will feel that you are dealing with the culture shock with the author also, the writing of Liu is very strong and it will attract you to the book as you read along.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
two years in the melting pot Oct 18, 2000
By Sallie Neubrand
Are you interested to know how a Chinese person experienced cultural shock in the US ? Then this book is a MUST. No book that I have read about the Chinese (and I have read many indeed) has touched me as profoundly as this precious glimpse into the personal feelings (rarely shared with Westerners) experienced by a gentle Chinese man during his two year stay in the Chicago area during the early 1980s. His English is excellant and his literary style very expressive and easy to read. His honesty and humor can not fail to touch the soul of the reader. I am deeply grateful to Mr. Liu for sharing his thoughts and experiences with us.
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 not incredible Jul 27, 2009
By Caraculiambro
This first-person account of a Chinese immigrant's adventures in the United States reads like it was written specifically for an intercultural communication course, where it remains popular. It hits all the notes: honeymoon phase, culture shock, loneliness, misunderstandings, religion, hygiene, different values, etc.
The problem for me is that it's a little boring. There's got to be better stuff out there, although you might have trouble finding a book that was as `safe' as this one. By that I mean there are no untoward sexual or drug-based events in the book, such that you could use with your church group if the need arose.
But that's kind of the problem for me. Nothing much happens, and what does happen is seen through Zongren's lens as though we're listening to Mr. Spock relate the geological history of some distant planet. There's little emotion: Zongren doesn't let you in on what he was feeling, and you wonder if he was simply so numb that he wasn't feeling much.
For example, there's a scene where the author is befriended by "David" (in the chapter "David and the Pagan"), a born-again Christian who's explicitly proselytizing. Zongren's account of this seems cold and remote: the whole chapter focuses on the slightly louche doings of the inexplicable David and what he said next. As for how Zongren felt, whether he was curious, offended, charmed, etc., we are not vouchsafed. And as for a comparison between David's efforts and how something like that would playout in Zongren's own country, you can forget it.
The whole book is like that: distanced and aseptic. (But perhaps I myself am just imposing my own cultural values on the author!)
Best non-fiction I have read so far about... Mar 21, 2011
By JC
THis book gives you a new perspective from a Chinese journalist living in America. The story is back to 80's but it's still cool.
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