In this Book
- Mr. Ding’s Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: University of Wisconsin Press
summary
After accepting a job teaching English on a small engineering vessel traveling from Shanghai to Texas, Gillian Kendall embarks on a strange journey with no ports of call but exotic emotional landscapes. She is the only female aboard, surrounded by Chinese men. The cosmopolitan graduate student suddenly has to adjust to an alien world, thick with cigarette smoke, unusual sea creatures, and male sexuality. Kendall invites readers to travel with her across cultural divides as deep and mysterious as the Pacific while she explores her own culture, orientation, and heart.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. ix
- Chapter Two: Shanghaied
- pp. 31-52
- Chapter Three: The Tan Suo Zhe
- pp. 53-71
- Chapter Four: One Arm’s Distance
- pp. 72-88
- Chapter Five: Ma, Not Ma
- pp. 89-111
- Chapter Six: Two Miles to the Bottom
- pp. 112-130
- Chapter Eight: Dolphins Are Not Fish
- pp. 147-161
- Chapter Nine: How to Remember
- pp. 162-186
- Chapter Ten: Unfit Company
- pp. 187-202
- Chapter Eleven: Bridge of the Americas
- pp. 203-225
- Chapter Twelve: The Face of a Friend
- pp. 226-246
Additional Information
ISBN
9780299219437
Related ISBN(s)
9780299219444
MARC Record
OCLC
826512573
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No