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Raising a Dragon Son
It's easy to become a parent, but extremely challenging to be a qualified and successful one. When Len and I started raising our son, Eli, we were clueless about the business of parenting. Learning on the job has made us veterans, and our experiences educated all three of us. That was quite a challenge, and it's also quite a job now to tell the story, a story about how we brought up Eli, helping him grow from an infant into an intelligent and mature young man, helping him grow both -roots- and -wings- in an interracial family. I am an amateur writer just as I was an amateur parent, eagerly searching memories, e-mails, and records long forgotten until now. But it's been fun to do because the ...
Tribute to Leonard Moss
Tribute to Leonard Moss is a collection of different writings: Leonard's own "Premature Obituary," as well as eulogies, letters, speeches, memorial essays, diary entries, articles, and book chapters written by his close family, and remembrances from many friends. It also includes several of his essays and descriptions of his many books. In addition, numerous old-time photographs are included throughout the book to add color to the memories.
China Was Paradise! China Was Hell!
Many books describe the experiences of an America traveler in China, and still others describe the experiences of Chinese in their native country. But this book is unique. It is a nonfiction love story, not a travelogue-an East-West romance that focuses on the lovers' responses to absurd bureaucratic challenges during an otherwise idyllic courtship. After the first part, narrated by the American, the authors alternate rather than merge their viewpoints in a single voice. They tell their story from the different perspectives of a Western man and a Chinese woman. As they work through their cultural differences and the obstacles frustrating their desire to marry, the two storytellers mature. Novelists have traced teenagers coming of age, but here is an account of growth achieved by a middle-aged couple. They learn from each other, from their allies in Beijing, even from the bureaucrats, as they move toward an emotional and sexual climax. This memoir has a fictional shape!
Growing Up in Mao's China
The author is a Chinese immigrant, having spent the first half of her life in the mainland China and the other half in the United States. In this memoir she describe her family roots and the major events in her 35 years from 1952 to 1987 during Mao's regime. She came of age at a time when the Cultural Revolution threw China in chaos, so she emphasize the impact of those tumultuous years upon three generations-grandma, my parents, and myself. She also highlights her love affair with a "foreign devil" after China opened her door to the western world-the difficulties she and her lover encountered and the triumphs they achieved. In addition, some old-time family photos add color to lasting memories.
Creating an Identity
This book orchestrates a theme with variations. The theme is the creation of an identity. The variations consist of talents that in my experience contribute to a desirable result-language readiness, emotional maturity, imaginative creativity, intelligent practicality, social flexibility, political tolerance, psychological balance, and physical resilience. Together they encompass capacities residing in the human organism. I consider possible expedients to promote those capacities-diary keeping and memoir composition to unify disconnected thoughts and feelings; marathon travel in unfamiliar terrain to enhance maturity; execution of an alternative lifestyle to enrich occupation and family; two-...
Isabel Says Good-Bye:
Told in emails, you will learn how, as Isabel's lung cancer advanced and her health declined, she worked with her doctor to arrange for her physician-assisted death. She pre-planned an uplifting ceremony and spent the day before it saying good-bye to her friends.
Shopping as an Entertainment Experience
Shopping as an Entertainment Experience explores the ways in which shopping has become a significant entertainment feature in our daily lives. Dr. Mark H. Moss examines the department store, the mall, and the e-store to demonstrate how shopping is often the most common leisure experience that people indulge in to occupy themselves. This unique book focuses on the historical evolution of shopping environments into contemporary entertainment or cultural zones. Through a phenomenological framework, Moss analyzes the way stores, outlets, and restaurants in malls mingle and merge aspects of consumption and merchandising. Shopping as an Entertainment Experience appeals to sociologists, cultural theorists, and those interested in popular culture.
Shaping Urban Infrastructures
Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable means that these systems are in a state of transition; from centralized to decentralized energy; from passive to smart infrastructure; from toll-free to road pricing. Such transitions are widely studied in the context of the influence of service providers, users, and regulators. Until now, however, relatively little attention has been given to the growing role of intermediaries...
Along the Way
I am a hybrid-at times a common stereotype, at other times a changeable invention with a dramatic imagination, gradually assembling an elastic self, piece by piece, coherent once in a while, often incoherent or lacking in awareness. My identity has been continually accumulating, for better and worse, never stationary for long, especially during earlier years, but always trying for unity. I had to learn most things from scratch, particularly what goes into feasible relationships. Whatever its origin, strength, and fallibility, an evolving identity did not materialize by accident, legacy, or coercion. In order to own it, I had to earn it. I had to build, repair, and defend it. It did not come ...
The Tragic Paradox
Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic individual. They reveal the treason, flux, and duplicity brought into play by an unrelenting drive for respect. Their patterns of speech, action, and image project a convergence of polarities, the convergence of integrity and radical change, of constancy and infidelity. A fanatical drive to fulfill a traditional code of masculine conduct produces the ironic consequence of de-forming that code—the tragic paradox. Tragic literature exploits irony. In...
