Culture Shock! China Sinclair

Step 1

1.      Why did you select the book you brought to class?

      It is because I want a lot people to learn china culture. For me, I doesn’t lose my language I identity and culture when I study English in the United State. The difficulty of learning a second language is also caused by the language rules, combining that all, learning a second language is the enculturation; we might change boundary fits to adjust to cultures, and this is included in language. So, I choose this book of culture shock from China. I want to learn more culture background between China and the United States. And this book can give many ideas to help other people from different cultural backgrounds how to communicate better with Chinese people.

2.      How many authors does it have?

Only two authors: Kevin Sinclair & Iris Wong Po-yee

3.      What is the title?

The title is Culture Shock! China (A Guide to Customs and Etiquette)

4.      Who printed the book? Re-printed? Distributed in the US?

Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company

Illustrations by TRIGG

Photographs by Kevin Sinclair and Chris Davis

Portland, Oregon. USA

This book is published by special arrangement with Times Editions Pte Ltd

5.     Which city was it printed in, and when?

This book Printed in Singapore

1990 Kevin Sinclair

Revised 1996, 1999

Reprinted 1997, 1998, 1999

Step 2

Today, I go to the library I chose book of “Culture Shock! China (A Guide to Customs and Etiquette” by Kevin Sinclair & Iris Wong Po-yee.  This book interesting me because I want a lot people to learn china culture. And I chose this book of culture shock from China. I want to learn more culture background between China and the United States. And this book can give many ideas to help other people from different cultural backgrounds how to communicate better with Chinese people. This book provocative information of today’s Chinese are healthier and wealthier than even before. They are also more free. This is not the freedom of the west, which often comes with irresponsibility, but the more basics freedom that most Chinese never knew until this century. There is freedom from starvation, and largely, freedom from oppression. This book born in 1990 Kevin Sinclair, revised 1996, 1999 and reprinted 1997, 1998, 1999, in Portland, Oregon and Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company publisher the book and this book is published by special arrangement with Times Editions Pte Ltd. The book was printed in Singapore. In 1983, after many years of rejections the author Kevin was finally given a visa to visit China.  This is a good begging when he first time come to China and write this book.