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Ebook About Westerners are flocking to China in increasing numbers to chase their dreams even as Chinese emigrants seek their own dreams abroad. Life as an outsider in China has many sides to it - weird, fascinating and appalling, or sometimes all together. We asked foreigners who live or have lived in China for a significant period to tell us a story of their experiences and these 28 contributions resulted. It’s all about living, learning and loving in a land unlike any other in the world.Book Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China Review :
"Unsavory Elements" edited by Tom Carter, the author of "China: Portrait of a People", has twenty-eight short memoirs that offer a balanced view of China from expatriates who have lived and/or traveled there.But the title almost misleads because not all of the authors come off as unsavory elements--most are there to learn and not to judge. Only a few of the stories in this collection were written by expatiates suffering from some form of sinophobia.I also value books that teach and I think that many of the stories in "Unsavory Elements" did that refreshingly well.For a few examples, first there was Paying Tuition by Matthew Polly who wrote: "One of the first things I had learned during my stay was that the Chinese love to negotiate. They love it so much that even after an agreement is reached, they'll often reopen negotiations just so they can do it all over again."I have visited China many times and--unlike most Westerners--I enjoy negotiating, but I didn't know about the reopening gambit. Next time, I may want to give that a try and extend the fun.In Communal Parenting by Aminta Arrington, I learned that the "Chinese have a fundamentally different relationship with their history than we Westerners. History is a subject we study in schools," and that history is not connected to who we are."Not so for the Chinese," Arrington writes. "History here [in China] is not book knowledge. Rather, their history is carried along with them as they walk along the way, an unseen burden, an invisible shadow; unconscious, and therefore, powerful."Kaitlin Solimine in Water, For Li-Ming writes about the five-months she stayed in China as a teenager in a high school, home-stay program, and it was her first time outside of the United States. For those few months, Li-Ming was her Chinese mother.Here is the gem that Solimine shares with us: "That's the thing about Chinese mothers: hidden behind their maternal expectations and critical diatribes are women who will fight to the death for you. As soon as I called her Mama, Li-Ming would be my strongest ally for the only months I knew her."From Graham Earnshaw in Playing in the Gray we discover: "There were no rules. Or rather, there was only one rule: that nothing is allowed. But the corollary, which reveals the true genius of China's love of the grey--in contrast to the black and white of the West--is that everything is possible. Nothing is allowed but everything is possible. It's just a matter of finding the right way to explain what you're doing."Reading Empty from the Outside by Susie Gordon we see that the "New China isn't shackled with the Judeo-Christian Morals of the West."Some in the West may see this lack of Judeo-Christian morals in China as a bad thing but that depends on how deeply entrenched a Westerner is in fundamentalist Christian morality. China--believe it or not--does have a moral foundation that many in the West turn a blind eye to. If you are married to a woman who was born in China and grew up there during Mao's puritanical repressive twenty-seven years as its leader, you might understand what I mean.In conclusion, there is Tom Carter's signature-title piece. In his short Unsavory Elements, Carter says in one passage, "Claude admittedly couldn't care less about Chinese culture; he was simply, like so many other foreigners in China--myself included--aimless and desperate for an income."There is so much more to this book called "Unsavory Elements" than these few examples. If you have an open mind that isn't infected by sinophobia and you want a better understanding of the Chinese, I highly recommend this collection. I love travel essays and I love China, so purchasing this book of essays by Chinese expats and long term travelers was a no-brainer. Overall, I enjoyed the book. It provided a glimpse into China I have not fully experienced in my travels to the country, it was mostly entertaining, and was an easy read. I'm unwilling to give it 5 stars, however, as some essays were just poorly written, difficult to follow, and sometimes abruptly ending. The final official chapter of the book was a disappointing chapter to end on, despite its humorous composition, as the subject matter was entirely centered on finding a prostitute for the author's friend. I found this personally objectionable, especially given the extraordinary exploitation of women through the large and ever growing sex trade in China as well as southeast Asia. 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