Reading Hong Kong, Reading Ourselves (Gateway Education Series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9629372355 ISBN 13: 9789629372354

Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2014

Synopsis

The book is written in the first person and parallels the encounter one has as you enter a new culture – starting with “Eating Hong Kong” (by a nutritionist). The chapters, written primarily by Fulbright scholars working in Hong Kong on general education, bring both a disciplinary perspective and a great interest in general education or liberal arts curricula. These scholars are inherently interdisciplinary, curious, generalists, educators, and communicators. As such, they are capable of analysing/ understanding Hong Kong from multiple perspectives- and of teaching the reader to do so as well.

This book in 14 chapters is specifically published for the purpose of modelling for students how disciplinary lenses offer different ways of encountering a new culture, and the book offers frameworks out of which to begin to understand another culture and place. It has a target audience of students going abroad (to any place), Fulbright scholars going abroad, and interdisciplinary seminars.

It is inspired by the concept of “city” as text.

About this title

About the Author:

Janel Curry, Provost, Gordon College, USA

Paul Hanstedt, Professor of English, Roanoke College, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: City University of Hong Kong Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 9629372355
• ISBN 13: 9789629372354
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250
• Editor: Curry Janel, Hanstedt Paul