When Kirsty Needham went to Beijing as a 'Foreign Expert' she had no idea quite how foreign - or confronting - the experience would be. Her romantic expectations of how it would be to work and live as a journalist in Beijing are swiftly swept away by the bizarre realities of this extraordinary country. As she grapples with the strange and often contradictory world of modern China - a country of communist slogans and transvestite nightclubs, SARS scares and SWAT-like teams of tourist handlers - Kirsty becomes embroiled in a world that constantly challenges her perceptions as it quietly wins her heart. By turns enlightening, hilarious and sometimes not a little scary, Kirsty's is a unique take on contemporary China as it is evolving right now. From a city where where St Bernard dogs are the new status symbols and nice middle-class Beijingers play the NASDAQ for fun she provides a fresh, compelling outsider's view of a little known and fascinating part of the world.
Sprache
Verlagsort
St Leonards NSW
Australien
Maße
Höhe: 195 mm
Breite: 130 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-74114-755-1 (9781741147551)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Kirsty Needham has been a journalist since 1994, and since 1997 a news reporter and feature writer for the The Sydney Morning Herald. In 2002/03, she worked as a freelance contributor to The South China Morning Post and in 2004 accepted a Medialink/ Australia-China Council fellowship to spend three months in China working as a journalist with the China Daily in Beijing.
Prologue: Laowai 2004..1. Red Fever..2. Yellow Dust..3. China Daily..4. Certified Expert Foreigners..5. Dragon Gorge..6. SARS and Propaganda..7. A Captive Audience..8. Sky..9. The Campaign Against Youth Spiritual Pollution..10. Street Scenes..11. When Red Means Go..12. Hot in the City..13. Gaining a Name, Losing Face..14. Checking Out..Acknowledgements
