Finding My Way: An American Maverick In China
Finding My Way: An American Maverick In China

Author: David M. Raddock

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2011-12

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0578093472

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"IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, we don't like individualists," Mr. Chen, the unit head, tells the author as Raddock describes his needs. The author learns the hard way that China's pervasive authoritarian and police controls can be treacherous stumbling blocks to free movement and accomplishment. After several years as an academic at Columbia and the University of Texas, David Raddock worked as Director, International Political Affairs, for ENSERCH Corporation, a multinational in the diversified energy arena and civil engineering. He left ENSERCH first to act as senior consultant with Hill and Knowlton and then to assume a managing partnership in KCS&A Public Relations. David has written four books on international affairs and China and numerous articles for a range of publications running the gamut from academic journals to art magazines and The New York Times.

Growing up Chinese
Growing up Chinese

Author: Stephen Ling

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-01-02

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1532036884

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GROWING UP CHINESE is a lively book with a funny, thoroughly enlightened author doing his best to tell his story and the story of one Chinese village in Malaya with tremendous insight, detail and compassion. The diverse culture in the land has emerged through multiple voices that the author struggled with in this coming-of-age memoir. He orchestrates all these voices to depict the complex life of growing up in a truly multicultural world. Most remarkably, this is the story of the American dream an ocean away from America. A young man born into poverty seeks a better life for himself by working hard and developing his innate talents to their fullest. He seeks to create and define his own life. Shades of Horatio Alger and Oliver Twist, this is an indelibly unforgettable story of one young mans quest for freedom, an education and a new life, a struggle by one undaunted by lifes hurdles and vicissitudes.

By, For, and About Marines
By, For, and About Marines

Author: Lt Col Sidney Atwater US Marine Corps

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2021-07-08

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1664182861

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By, For, and About Marines is a nonfiction collection of notable quotes giving voice to U.S. Marines throughout its storied and illustrious history. Each quote is set in historical context to give the reader a better understanding of where, when, and why the quote is included.

Maury Maverick
Maury Maverick

Author: Richard B. Henderson

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0292788800

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Maury Maverick was possibly the first liberal United States Congressman from Texas to achieve national and even international stature. A dedicated Democrat, he was ready to attack Franklin D. Roosevelt whenever he felt that Roosevelt was flagging in his enthusiasm for reform. He was honest to the point of rudeness, and he belonged to the "damn the torpedoes" class that pulled ahead regardless of political consequences. He was at home with the literate—he was a prodigious writer and speaker—but always ready to puncture their pretensions. And he could cuss with sailors, pecan shellers, and any breed of saloon keeper. Put all that together with a short, stocky, bulldog frame, a fierce face and a voice to match, and you have one of the nation's more colorful political figures.

Finding My Way: an American Maverick in China
Finding My Way: an American Maverick in China

Author: David Raddock

Publisher:

Published: 2013-07-22

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 9781491065792

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"In the People's Republic of China, we don't like individualists," Mr. Chen, the unit head, tells the author as Raddock describes his needs. The author learns the hard way that China's pervasive authoritarian and police controls can be treacherous stumbling blocks to free movement and accomplishment.This is a different sort of memoir. It is a very personal story about myself as a man who spent years studying China and the Chinese language and then found this career path had allowed him to interact with China and the Chinese people from the perspective of different roles.Learning about the ways in which my own personality intervened in the process was at times amusing and at times very painful. Writing this book was a truly private enterprise. It is now meant to illumine what it is like in the deeper but even routine sense of getting along in mainland Chinese society.

Bodies and Voices
Bodies and Voices

Author: Anna Rutherford

Publisher: Rodopi

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9042023341

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The articles investigate representations in literature, both by the colonizers and colonized. Many deal with the effect the dominant culture had on the self image of native inhabitants. They cover areas on all continents that were colonized by European countries.

Episodes and Vignettes Volume One, Volume Two
Episodes and Vignettes Volume One, Volume Two

Author: David R. Beasley

Publisher: David Beasley

Published: 2015-01-02

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 091531746X

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Volume One, 501p. Birth in Hamilton, family, education, life in Europe, love in Vienna, marriage to Anglo-Burmese and work in New York City, struggles to publish, tragedy, library school. Volume Two, 507p. The New York Public Research Libraries, union organizing, presidency, writing, literati, publications, Viola’s insights and phenomenal scholarship, return to Canada.