Overview
When Jan made the hasty decision to trade her career as a Tour Guide in an underground sapphire mine in Central Queensland, Australia, for a year teaching English in Inner Mongolia, China, she had no idea what was in store. At her destination: her elder son, his Chinese wife, a first grandson (whom she'd never met), and a host of Chinese in-laws who spoke no English. Her younger son was a reluctant travelling companion. Culture-shocked to her core, she describes the challenges, humorous and tragic, of meeting new family and teaching in a foreign land where characters are diverse and events bizarre: readers are led through schoolrooms, market-places and smoky mah-jong parlours. "Invented" credentials, family tensions, a collapsing ceiling, and her unrequited lust for a younger man make this book a riveting read. Reviews: http: //www.amazon.com/Glimpse-Dragon-Beyond-Great-Wall/product-reviews/1409202739 Australian customers please email me directly for an affordable signed copy.
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- ISBN-13: 9781409202738
- ISBN-10: 1409202739
- Publisher: Lulu Press
- Publish Date: April 2008
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.67 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.89 pounds
- Page Count: 300
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