Based on extensive interviews with 20 North American millennial expats, this book is as much about overcoming obstacles and living with a can-do spirit as it is about China, its people, its institutions, and its wide array of international residents. Whether a current or future sojourner to China, a concerned family member, or someone with a healthy curiosity about the Middle Kingdom, you'll want to read this book that showcases China through the eyes of a diverse group of outsiders!
In 2014 Sophia Erickson graduated from college with an apparently useless degree in European history from an obscure foreign college. Faced with crippling student loan debts and after an anxious couple of months waiting tables in her small Massachusetts town, she decided to do something different and bought a one-way ticket to China. Over the following two years she had many amazing experiences, paid off nearly half her student loans, and visited China from Heilongjiang to Hainan, as well as Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. She wrote The China Option: A Guide for Millennials: How to work, play, and find success in China to give Millennials a path to explore their future the way she explored her own in China. The book covers a wide range of topics from the concept of “face” to coffee culture to racism to love to LGBT issues, as well as all of the practicalities readers need to know to get in and get a job. The China Option is a manifesto for recent college grads to take control of paying off debt while living a stimulating, adventurous life and to pave a way for a successful future.
Millennials, also known as Generation Y, are those born between 1981 and 1996. There are more than 350 million Chinese millennials, making over 25 percent of the entire population. They are more educated than previous generations, with 25 percent of them holding a bachelor's degree or higher. A report in 2019 showed that young adults aged between 16 and 35 are earning an average monthly wage of 7,342 Chinese yuan (US $1,018). In this Book About Chinese Culture, you will discover: - Introduction to China's Millennial Generation - Pursuing the China dream - Expanding education - The development of Chinese Dream - The beginning of change - Nothing is impossible - And so much more! Get your copy today!
Above the Sea: Expat in China is a personal account of the author's experiences living, working, and traveling in China. It is a valuable resource for anyone destined for China for business or pleasure. Living in Shanghai with his wife, a native of Guangzhou, the author shares insights into a dynamic and complex nation. Besides Shanghai, the couple have visited more than two dozen cities, towns and villages in China, from Harbin in the far North to Guangzhou in the South, and as far west as Xi'an, the ancient capital. In Above the Sea: Expat in China, the author has managed to be both informative and entertaining. The book contains his impressions of the challenges, the friendships, and sometimes the frustrations of living in a country that is both ancient and modern, and always changing.
“Ash’s book paints a telling portrait of this most restless generation raised in a system that has provided them with unprecedented personal opportunities while denying them political ones . . . A gifted observer.”—Washington Post If China will rule the world one day, who will rule China? There are more than 320 million Chinese between the ages of sixteen and thirty. Children of the one-child policy, born after Mao, with no memory of the Tiananmen Square massacre, they are the first net native generation to come of age in a market-driven, more international China. Their experiences and aspirations were formed in a radically different country from the one that shaped their elders, and their lives will decide the future of their nation and its place in the world. Wish Lanterns offers a deep dive into the life stories of six young Chinese. Dahai is a military child, netizen, and self-styled loser. Xiaoxiao is a hipster from the freezing north. “Fred,” born on the tropical southern island of Hainan, is the daughter of a Party official, while Lucifer is a would-be international rock star. Snail is a country boy and Internet gaming addict, and Mia is a fashionista rebel from far west Xinjiang. Following them as they grow up, go to college, find work and love, all the while navigating the pressure of their parents and society, Wish Lanterns paints a vivid portrait of Chinese youth culture and of a millennial generation whose struggles and dreams reflect the larger issues confronting China today.
This book prepares expats for a posting in China. It will help them get the most out of a lifestyle and environment that will be very different from anything they have previously experienced. It covers: The business and social environment; Safety and security; Inoculations and illnesses; Healthcare; Housing; Domestic staff; Keeping pets; Climate and clothing; Communications; Transport CONTENTS: 1. Overview of living and working in China 2. The living and working environment 3. Safekeeping 4. Epidemiology 5. Healthcare 6. Accommodation 7. Domestic Staff 8. Keeping Dogs 9. Climate and clothing 10. Communications 11. Transport 12. Work Practices 13. Expat life
"What a romp….Alan Paul walked the walk, preaching the blues in China. Anyone who doubts that music is bigger than words needs to read this great tale." —Gregg Allman "An absolute love story. In his embrace of family, friends, music and the new culture he's discovering, Alan Paul leaves us contemplating the love in our own lives, and rethinking the concept of home." —Jeffrey Zaslow, coauthor, with Randy Pausch, of The Last Lecture Alan Paul, award–winning author of the Wall Street Journal’s online column “The Expat Life,” gives his engaging, inspiring, and unforgettable memoir of blues and new beginnings in Beijing. Paul’s three-and-a-half-year journey reinventing himself as an American expat—while raising a family and starting the revolutionary blues band Woodie Alan, voted Beijing Band of the Year in the 2008—is a must-read adventure for anyone who has lived abroad, and for everyone who dreams of rewriting the story of their own future.
