Reading Chinese fortune cookie : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / LuMing Mao.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mao, LuMing, 1959-
Language:	English
Published:	Logan, UT : Utah State University Press, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:	English language > United States > Rhetoric. Chinese Americans > Languages. Chinese language > Influence on English. Language and culture > United States. Intercultural communication > United States. Sociolinguistics.
Online Access:	Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:	xi, 177 pages ; 23 cm
Format:	Book

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.