Gish Jen

The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap

Sprecher: Mclaughlin, Caroline

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: TANTOR AUDIO
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 458 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juni 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781665260954
• Artikelnr.: 61484915

Autorenporträt

GISH JEN is the author of four novels, a book of stories, and a previous book of nonfiction, Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction, the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Fulbright Foundation. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and lives with her husband and children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface 
 
Part I: We Edit the World 
 
1 Three Edits 
2 A Telling Irritation 
3 Some Helpful Background 
4 The Asian Paradox 
Part II: The Flexi-Self 
 
5 What Is a Flexi-Self? 
6 Boundary Blurring 
7 The Genius and the Master 
8 Testing, Testing 
9 Patterns and Training 
Part III: The Big Pit Self 
 
10 How WEIRD We Are 
11 America, an Explanation 
Part IV: Meetings and Mixings 
 
12 Our Talking, Our Selves 
13 In Praise of Ambidependence 
14 Greatness in Two Flavors  
Epilogue 
Acknowledgments 
Appendix A: Key to Self Text 
Appendix B: Recommended Reading  
Notes  
Bibliography 
Illustration Credits 
Index