No chopsticks required
Subtitle: my family's unexpected year in Shanghai
By: Katrina Beikoff
Publisher: Samantha Miles
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Warriewood, N.S.W
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781921462290
Subjects: Social life and customs; Journalists; Biography
Description: In 2008, the author's journalist husband Shorty accepts a job offer working on The Shanghai Daily and together with their two small children, they embark on a fantastic adventure - living and working in China for a year.
Table of contents: title: Ch. 1. A great proposition; title: ch. 2. Shanghai calling; title: ch. 3. The big gulp; title: ch. 4. Early settlers; title: ch. 5. Lessons in rivalry; title: ch. 6. Happy New Year; title: ch. 7. Snowed in; title: ch. 8. It's newspapers, but not as we know it; title: ch. 9. The Tibet situation; title: ch. 10. A helping hand; title: ch. 11. A class of our own; title: ch. 12; title: Behind the facade; title: ch. 13. Is that Elvis in emergency?; title: ch. 14. Don't tell me not to panic; title: ch. 15. May 12, 2008; title: ch. 16. Online Army; title: ch. 17. China's Olympics; title: ch. 18. Here comes Haibo; title: ch. 19. Milking a scandal; title: ch. 20. A dumpling for every occasion; title: ch. 21. Who could be cranky at Cinderella?; title: ch. 22. Blue ants to bedtime; title: ch. 23. Fear and timing in Shanghai; title: ch. 24. It feels like home; title: Acknowledgements.