Reading Chinese fortune cookie : : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / / LuMing Mao.
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. Recent scholarship tends to explain such influences as contributing to l...
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (191 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : thinking through paradoxes
- Opening topics : reading Chinese fortune cookie
- Face to face : Chinese and European American
- Indirection versus directness : a relation of complementarity
- Terms of contact reconfigured : ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism
- From classroom to community : Chinese American rhetoric on the ground
- Closing comment : Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.