Review: good preparation for anyone going to work in rural China
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 24, 2012
I think that anyone who is going to work in China outside the main cities (and maybe even if they are going to live and work in the main cities) should read this. It is one woman's experience and I can testify that many of her experiences are true. I would also like to commend her for trying seemingly impossible or very unappealing foods; I know that that is greatly appreciated by the Chinese. She does a good job in describing the food, the way people eat and how she as a Westerner perceives all of that.I did think that she was not terribly well prepared and she seemed to be surprised about things that really anyone who spends a bit of time preparing should not be surprised about.What I found lacking is some depth. The author should have dug a little further in her interactions with her chinese colleagues and that would have given her (and us) some really good and interesting insights.This book does not wander far off the 'long term tourist' path and that is a shame...