
Reading Hong Kong, Reading Ourselves
City University of Hong Kong Press
Published on 30. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-962-937-235-4 (ISBN)
Description
The book is written in the first person and parallels the encounter one has as you enter a new culture - starting with "Eating Hong Kong" (by a nutritionist). The chapters, written primarily by Fulbright scholars working in Hong Kong on general education, bring both a disciplinary perspective and a great interest in general education or liberal arts curricula. These scholars are inherently interdisciplinary, curious, generalists, educators, and communicators. As such, they are capable of analysing/ understanding Hong Kong from multiple perspectives- and of teaching the reader to do so as well.
This book in 14 chapters is specifically published for the purpose of modelling for students how disciplinary lenses offer different ways of encountering a new culture, and the book offers frameworks out of which to begin to understand another culture and place. It has a target audience of students going abroad (to any place), Fulbright scholars going abroad, and interdisciplinary seminars.
It is inspired by the concept of "city" as text.
This book in 14 chapters is specifically published for the purpose of modelling for students how disciplinary lenses offer different ways of encountering a new culture, and the book offers frameworks out of which to begin to understand another culture and place. It has a target audience of students going abroad (to any place), Fulbright scholars going abroad, and interdisciplinary seminars.
It is inspired by the concept of "city" as text.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 159 mm
Weight
502 gr
ISBN-13
978-962-937-235-4 (9789629372354)
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Persons
Janel Curry, Provost, Gordon College, USA
Paul Hanstedt, Professor of English, Roanoke College, USA
Paul Hanstedt, Professor of English, Roanoke College, USA