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Season in Red: My Great Leap Forward into the New China
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When journalist Kristy Needham heads to Beijing to work at a Chinese newspaper as a “foreign expert,” she has studied the language and the history but has no idea what life in China will really be like. As this compelling story reveals, she soon learns that Communist slogans, transvestite nightclubs, SARS scares, and militant teams of tourist handlers are just a few of the disparate elements of everyday life in China that she must navigate. From being constantly asked if she is a spy to maintaining her integrity at a government-controlled paper, Needham is caught in a nation haunted by its past and surging toward the future. Through wry, journalistic observations, this vivid memoir offers an enlightening, hilarious, and sometimes scary outsider’s take on contemporary China and its rapidly changing culture.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Servicable telling of the true story of a young Australian journalist employed for a year to participate in the creation of an English language version of a Chinese newspaper in Beijing. We discover how the system of managing people such as the author works, how a foreigner can live in China and has a few traveller's tales of weird toilets and the general exotica of living in and touring an awakening and colourful but wary dragon's main cities.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting look at urban China now through the eyes of a journalist on a 3 month work experience from Australia.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kirsty Needham traveled to Beijing, China in 2004 to immerse herself in the the culture. She wanted to see how China was modernizing at that time. As a journalist she arrived with a suitcase full of preconceived notions of how her time will be spent. She soon learns nothing is as it seems in a world full of constantly changing communist propaganda and government bureaucracy. As she says, "But there is a difference between knowing what you are letting yourself in for, and how you actually react when you find yourself there" (p 94). SARS, Saint Bernard dogs, controversial bicycles, progressive fashion and techno-night clubs are all the rage.
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