Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion

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An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in flux

In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic advis...more

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Published July 5th 2011 by Holt Paperbacks

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Apr 03, 2013 Sacramento Public Library added it

Shelves: non-fiction, travel, staff-pick

Kosher Chinese, by Michael Levy, recounts the story of the author’s two-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small Chinese city, where he taught English at the local university. When Levy first arrived, he was squeamish about eating a bowl of millipedes his hosts offered. Hoping not to offend, he declined on the grounds that he was Jewish and millipedes weren’t kosher, hence the book’s title.

In Levy’s two years in China, he came to understand the profound differences between the interior...more

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Aug 02, 2012 Santo rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: china-studies

“In September 2005, the Peace Corps sent Mike Levy to teach English in China’s heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him…”

Those couple of sentences on the back of Michael Levy’s Kosher Chinese: Living Teaching, and Eating with China’s Other Billion were enough to make me feel that despite its Rp 175.000 price tag, this book was going to be worth all of it. I didn’t even think twice. There were two copies on the shelf; I decided on the one with less cracks on its...more

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Jul 29, 2012 Twilight rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: china, chinese, expat, expatriot, peace-corps, judaism

A surprisingly fast read about a Peace Corps volunteer who travels to China for two years and about his experiences. It was a really enjoyable read, although it was not quite what I expected. I thought his religion might play a little more into the narrative, but it wasn't.

Thankfully the author mostly steers clear from stereotypes and orientalism. Indeed, I think he did a pretty good job in showing what might seem pretty weird/oppressive/uncomfortable for Westerners, but was completely normal fo...more

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Mar 18, 2012 Ensiform rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, travel, china

The author recounts his experiences as an English teacher sponsored by the Peace Corps for two years in China’s heartland, the city of Guiyang in the relatively poor Guizhou province. Until then a vegetarian who kept a kosher diet, he soon realizes that in order to get the full experience, he will have to eat as his hosts do: fried bugs, maggots, lizard wine, and maybe even dog stew. Of course, he also adjusts to the culture shock in a variety of other ways, mastering squat toilets, understandin...more

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Nov 12, 2011 Sara rated it 3 of 5 stars

I really enjoy travelogues about China, even though they all follow the same pattern: traveler doesn't know much about China, takes crash course in Chinese, lives in China, experiences the contact sport that is standing in line in China, says stupid things in Chinese because they get the tones wrong, feels like an outsider, pokes fun at the food, makes friends, makes witty remarks about globalization in China (usually while sitting in a KFC or Pizza Hut) falls in love with China, finally feels a...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Pamela rated it 4 of 5 stars

Kosher Chinese is a memoir of a young man, Michael Levy, serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in remote Guiyang, in Guizhou province, China.

Except for a few weeks training, Levy knew little about his destination and even less about Chinese culture. Almost from the beginning, Levy comes face to face with the differences he’s been told about in his classes.

You’ll find yourself, by turns, chuckling, shaking your head, even taking notes, and horrified. It is hard to tell who had more to teach, Levy o...more

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Jul 06, 2011 Angie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, non-fiction, travel

"I held the ball and took a deep breath. The trip to the game had included a teammate crapping in a bag; my cheering section included a girl from a tiny village forced to go to work at age twelve; my team nickname was Friendship Jew. But the hoop was still ten feet high. A rebound was still a rebound. As long as I was allowed to play the game, the differences surrounding it faded away."

Kosher Chinese is the Peace Corps memoir of 29-year-old Michael "Mike" Levy, detailing his two years in Guiyang...more "I held the ball and took a deep breath. The trip to the game had included a teammate crapping in a bag; my cheering section included a girl from a tiny village forced to go to work at age twelve; my team nickname was Friendship Jew. But the hoop was still ten feet high. A rebound was still a rebound. As long as I was allowed to play the game, the differences surrounding it faded away."

Kosher Chinese is the Peace Corps memoir of 29-year-old Michael "Mike" Levy, detailing his two years in Guiyang, China.

The book has everything you'd expect from a 29-year-old American male writing about his experiences—enough pop culture references to make your head spin, basketball games with some of the students, and awkward toilet experiences. What sets this particular narrative apart from the usual barrage of American-Abroad memoirs is that Levy was the first PCV (Peace Corps Volunteer) at Guizhou University, and he's Jewish.

Although he portrays himself as a practicing but skeptical Jew, the book opens up with him confessing to some of his hosts that he's a "special person too" and unable to eat the crunchy millipedes in front of him. This experience sets the tone for the book, and suffers in the same way—while there is a clear linear narrative presented in the book, it could be strengthened. Trying to boil two years in 240 pages is tough, and the book would have benefited being a little longer.

The book handles the cultural breakdown between America and China with humor; upon finding out that Levy is Jewish, the usual response is "Comrade Marx was Jewish, too!" Even with the creation of a kind of Judaism club at the university where Levy taught, the students didn't quite grasp what Jewish, or even American, culture was about— as evidenced by the task Levy was asked to do on Christmas Eve: dress up as Santa Claus and run around the mall, yelling at everyone to buy stuff.

The most touching part of Levy's experience was his friendship with three young Bouyei girls. The Bouyei are one of China's many ethnic groups, and Levy ventures to a Bouyei village after being told that the Bouyei are "primitive" and warned against interacting with them. Because of his friendship with one of the girls in particular, whom he calls Big Twin, he's given insight not only into one possible life story for one of China's ethnic minorities, but also the practice of guanxi, which can be seen as a sort of you-rub-my-back-I'll-rub-yours relationship between Chinese individuals.

Guanxi is one of the large themes of the book as Levy tries his best to navigate Chinese culture in a part of China that, while having a Wal-Mart and a Pizza Hut, is otherwise vastly culturally and economically different from the more "advanced" coastal cities the average American is familiar with. Levy handles his role as a PCV and a human being with a moral code unlike his hosts with grace at times, and with shame at other times. He asks a lot of hard-hitting questions, but unfortunately, he doesn't really expand on the answers he's found, when there were answers. In particular, the lives of the three Bouyei girls that he befriended are treated in a very rushed way at the end of the book, and it would have been great to have had this relationship and their lives brought out more.

All in all, the book is a quick, interesting read and Levy handles the American-Abroad subject matter with a sense of humor and willingness to ask the hard questions some Americans find themselves unable to.(less)

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Oct 03, 2011 Khaya rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chinajapan, jewish, memoirs

With Kosher Chinese: Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion, Peace Corps veteran Michael Levy has given us another addition to that ever-proliferating memoir genre, The-Crazy-Thing-I-Did-For-A-Year (or two). "Kosher Chinese" lives up to but fails to transcend the expectations for that genre -- scattered humorous anecdotes, occasional poignant insightful moments, and a few Big Questions (no great answers, but no one really has them anyway), embedded in a sea of mildly interesting...more

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Sep 30, 2011 Ramón rated it 3 of 5 stars

I picked this book up from the library because I laughed out loud at several points in the short introduction. I laughed because I just spent two years as an expat in the "forgotten places" of China and Levy's introduction was pitch perfect in capturing the simultaneous gravity and hilarity of cross-cultural foibles. The rest of the book struggled to maintain its initial balance and freshness, but it was an enjoyable read nonetheless, delivering a few truly hilarious anecdotes.

This will be an en...more

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Jan 20, 2013 Lynn rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: current-events, memior, non-fiction, travel, peace-corps

The Peace Corps is an great place for stories about other countries from Americans. Author Michael Levy invites us to Guiyang province in China where he taught English for 2 years at a local college. Guiyang is in the middle of China and is one of the least developed parts of China which means sewers pour waste out with abandon, garbage is everywhere and the population has a large population of minorities. Mike's students have taken English names for themselves, such as Pussy, Shitty, and Moron....more

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Dec 16, 2012 Becky rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: nonfiction, humor, jewish

Kosher Chinese is Michael Levy's memoir about his two years as Peace Corps Volunteer teaching English in rural, central China. This is truly a wonderful, humorous, warm, and deeply insightful read (and also completely appropriate for a Jewish person to read around Christmastime... Levy even mentions the Jewish tradition of eating at Chinese restaurants on Christmas somewhere in the book).

The book provides readers with a glimpse of what life is like outside of Beijing and Shanghai, the areas of...more Kosher Chinese is Michael Levy's memoir about his two years as Peace Corps Volunteer teaching English in rural, central China. This is truly a wonderful, humorous, warm, and deeply insightful read (and also completely appropriate for a Jewish person to read around Christmastime... Levy even mentions the Jewish tradition of eating at Chinese restaurants on Christmas somewhere in the book).

The book provides readers with a glimpse of what life is like outside of Beijing and Shanghai, the areas of China most frequently covered by American media. Unlike Beijing and Shanghai, which have access to a wide variety of Western goods, and where a large percentage of the population is well-educated and well-off, Guiyang's primary aspirations to Western culture are a Pizza Hut and Walmart (make that two Walmarts! as the dean of the university proudly informs Levy). Levy does a good job of describing both the less palatable and beautiful parts of Guiyang culture. He is quick to point out that Socialism with Chinese Characteristics has drastically reduced poverty throughout China. He also dispels stereotypes that Chinese students have no creativity or critical thinking skills; when Levy gives students the opportunity to express their opinions and ideas, they excel and often teach him as much or more than he is teaching them. At the same time, Levy does not hesitate to note the extreme poverty, corruption, racism, xenophobia (and a strange Anti-Semitism), and oppressive beauty and cultural standards for women that he sees all around him. As he gets to know his students better, he repeatedly gets the impression that many Chinese youth are confused about their life path: Maoism is no longer relevant in the way it was in the 60's, and students are discouraged from learning (or actively misinformed) about their history and culture, as well as the history and culture of other places. Everyone is encouraged to pursue wealth, but this feels unsatisfying on multiple levels: first, economic opportunities are limited in Guiyang, and second, even those people he meets who are financially successful feel somewhat hollow and dissatisfied.

As with any good travelogue, not only does the reader learn more about the culture the writer is visiting, but they are left with a different perspective on the writer's home culture. The book brings up many interesting questions about Levy, and by extension, the United States. When Levy's students criticize the Bush administration's spying on domestic citizens and the ways in which corporations "buy elections", Levy struggles to explain how our system is better than the Chinese one. Levy also struggles throughout the book to identify where the line between appropriate cultural immersion and total loss of self falls. This comes out most frequently in Levy's relationship to Chinese food: he keeps kosher and vegetarian in the United States, yet, by the end of his stay in China, Levy starts eating dog stew. Furthermore, Levy's students' existential concerns are reflected by Levy's own questioning of why he decided to join the Peace Corps and go to China in the first place. He initially believes he is there to "help people" but is constantly confronted by the fact that the kind of help he wants to give and what his students and the people around him are receiving are inevitably different things. My only wish in this book is that Levy had spent more time actually trying to answer these questions instead of just posing them repeatedly.

But with all of this book's big ideas and genuine empathy, its best selling point is Levy's fantastic sense of humor. I spent hours laughing out loud at some of the cultural snares Levy gets trapped in and even reading passages out loud to friends and family. I will not ruin any of them for you here; but believe me, if you are not guffawing by the end of chapter one, there is probably something wrong with you.

Overall, a great, quick read. Highly recommended. (less)

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Mar 05, 2013 Jamie Crouthamel rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2o13

I picked this read up on a whim after I had finished my other book at work and was looking for something to entertain me on my lunch break. I'm REALLY glad I did! This is a fantastic memoir of Mike, a Jewish Peace Corps volunteer who is stationed as an english teacher at a university in central China. He is given a crash course in Chinese in a westernized city where wealth and progress are an breakneck speed. When he travels into the interior he is faced with the reality that is far different th...more

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Feb 27, 2012 Hester rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: china, non-fiction, judaism-and-jewish-issues

This was a fun book with heart-breaking moments. The author is a soft hearted, easy going goofball who loves basketball and beer pong. He seems modest--the education he must have received at Cornell, the yeshiva, and graduate school occasionally sneaks out. Every time, I was surprised (again) at how smart he was. I was surprised at how much he talked about China's spiritual malaise. The book reads like an amusing travelogue, punctuated by the moments of extreme cruelty. He must be an incredibly...more

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Oct 09, 2012 John rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, bio-and-memoir

I could understand if folks have a higher opinion of the book than I came away with, but I really wasn't able to identify with the author, being neither Jewish, nor a basketball fan, nor knowledgeable of the music to which he sometimes refers. The "Jewish angle" seemed little more than a marketing hook to me - he makes no dietary concession at all, presumably eating pork during his time there, though he does host a Friday "Shabbat night" for his Chinese students. Unlike in Hessler's book, we get...more

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May 15, 2012 Steve rated it 4 of 5 stars

We have almost no "inside information" about what it's really like to be Chinese in modern China, and this one book won't do a lot to change that. However, author Michael Levy has done Americans a real favor by showing what it was like for him living for two years in a city unknown to a majority of Americans. There is much to make you laugh out loud in this book; Chinese is not an easy language to learn, and he was sent by the Peace Corps to teach English. There is also a lot to make you shake y...more

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Oct 13, 2011 Holly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: arm-chair-traveler, china, humor

Michael Levy is a 29 year old Peace Corps volunteer who is sent to Western China. He is the first PCV to teach English at Guiyang University. His hosts found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. These young students have a complex relationship with both their own traditions and the r...more

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Oct 15, 2011 Tina Hamilton rated it 3 of 5 stars

I'm going to cheat, and what is on the back cover of the book "A funny and informative account of life in Guizhou province, deep in the heart of China. As a Peace Corps volunteer, Michael Levy came to know and love a part of the country that few visitors see, a world away from Beijing and Shanghai." Peter Hessler, author of "River Town" and "Oracle Bones"

Mr. Hessler was generous in his review. I would not have finished reading this book except I was stuck waiting in the doctor's office.

If you'd...more

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Mar 02, 2011 Eve rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: biography-memoir, nonfiction

This book isn't out yet -- I got an advanced reader's copy from my mom, who's in publishing -- but when it comes out you should read it! It's a fascinating, often hilarious story about the author's time living in rural China while working for Peace Corps. The title is misleading: Levy doesn't even try to keep kosher in China (although he is initially resistent to eating millipedes and dog meat). There are some amusing exchanges about food, though (which I won't give away), and lots of interestin...more

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Dec 26, 2012 Julie Reece rated it 5 of 5 stars

Loved this book-- my interest in China and my own cultural heritage! Despite having lived in China many years before Levy's stint in the Peace Corps, I found many of his observations of life in "the other China" similar to my own experiences in the PRC from 20 years ago. I also really enjoyed and could relate to the cultural interplay of being an American Jew in China and all of the stereotypes that Chinese people relate to Americans in general and Jews in particular. There were times when I lau...more

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May 01, 2012 Holly rated it 4 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book about a Peace Corps Volunteer who spends two years in rural China starting in 2005. What makes it particularly interesting, though not exclusively so, is the fact that Michael Levy is Jewish and has previously kept kosher. His life experiences there are at times touching, absurd, hysterical and often confusing as we view life from America. He is there to be a teacher though at times is the university star basketball player, a life coach to his students, and an advisor...more

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Mar 30, 2012 B rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: adult-humorous, adult-nonfiction, adult-recommend-to-patrons, adult-other-countries

A fun, insightful account of two years, (starting in 2005), of teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer at a University in central China. I enjoyed the author's openness, his humor about the many peculiarites he faced, (central China is quite a bit more backward than coastal places such as Beijing), but most of all, his warm, thoughtful interactions with everyone he encounters in China, especially some of the children. His discussions with his students about their attitudes towards communism,...more

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Jan 05, 2013 Wendy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, own

The author tells of his experiences as a Peace Corp volunteer while teaching English in rural China. It is a humorous, serious and sometimes sad depiction of how minorities of China work, live, eat and think about their lives, and the rest of the world. The Chinese Way of teaching, controlling and guiding their citizens was fascinating as well as disturbing. The Chinese perceptions of education, religion, the US, capitalism, and race is so skewed it is comically sad.
He has a irritating habit of...more

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Jul 28, 2011 Meaghan rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: memoirs, read-in-2011, travel

This book was not only extremely amusing, but it also, I think, gave me a look on what it's really like to live in China. Levy writes about China and the Chinese people, particularly its young people, with compassion and wit. And of course there's the typical travel stories of strange food -- he finally forced himself to eat dog but drew the line at fried millipedes -- and hilarious language mistakes. Levy got into a lot of strange situations in China -- I think the "Santa Claus and Silly String...more

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Mar 18, 2012 Julie Scott rated it 4 of 5 stars

Who knew that Chinese Walmart sold dog meat? This book gave me a glimpse into the new China. In the post-communist era, China seems lost between Marxism and Capitalism. Stripped of their culture, China is grasping for something to embrace as its own. China chastises America's culture for being a Capitalistic, religious cult of materialism and at the same time seeks to imitate it. While the story line meandered, the absurdities recorded in Micheal's daily life as a Peace Corp teacher in China (li...more

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Mar 03, 2012 Anne rated it 4 of 5 stars

So far, this book is very funny and engaging. I'm enjoying it.

I continued to enjoy this book throughout. The author, a Peace Corps volunteer, had very funny and poignant observations on life in rural China and how different it is from coastal China where things are changing so fast. The overlay of his Judaism and how it messes with the Chinese stereotypes of Americans brought another layer to his observations. His ruminations on a Jew dressing up to play Santa at Christmas because the Chinese re...more

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Oct 24, 2011 Jane rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: memoir, jewish, china, light-and-easy

I really enjoyed reading this book. I was sorry when I finished it yesterday because I wanted it to continue. (That's always a sure sign that it's at least a 4 star book.) I think the title is a little bit of a misnomer though. The author is Jewish and writes about experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in China. It is interesting that he is Jewish and it comes up from time to time but it is not the main subject of the book. I found his stories to be facinating, hilarious and heart breaking. Prio...more

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Sep 26, 2012 Shana rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was a predictably humorous book written by a former Peace Corps volunteer who found himself spending two years in a part of China often neglected by those in the West. As expected, there were funny anecdotes about the awkward use of English, introductions to strange foods, and reflective moments in which Levy feels either well-acclimated to Guiyang or completely clueless as to how to handle a situation. In turn it is an honest account of one man’s struggle to be and express himself while be...more

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Jun 25, 2012 Tracy rated it 3 of 5 stars

This is a memoir written by a Jewish man from Philadelphia who joined the Peace Corps when he was 29 after being educated at Cornell and yeshiva in Israel. He was assigned to a remote village in China and this is the story of his two years teaching English at the university in this village. Very interesting story about remote China vs. modern China as well as the idiosyncrasies of China in general. Very funny and sometimes sad story of life in China through the lens of a Jewish American. It lagg...more

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Jan 23, 2013 Melissa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: china, memoir, peace-corps, travel, non-fiction

I'd like to join the Peace Corps someday. And I had thought that if I did, I would very much like to serve in China. So this was a good book for me to read, as it brought about some things about volunteering in China that I would never have thought about. Plus, the author is just downright funny.

Michael Levy decides to join the peace corps and is shipped off to China where he is to be a language teacher. There, he faces each day with students who are eager to learn, but not in a way he is accust...more I'd like to join the Peace Corps someday. And I had thought that if I did, I would very much like to serve in China. So this was a good book for me to read, as it brought about some things about volunteering in China that I would never have thought about. Plus, the author is just downright funny.

Michael Levy decides to join the peace corps and is shipped off to China where he is to be a language teacher. There, he faces each day with students who are eager to learn, but not in a way he is accustomed to. And to add to this, he comes from a Jewish background, which makes him a little different than the Americans the Chinese he meets have experienced before. It makes him an oddity among oddities yet still able to have mostly positive interactions with his community. Having come down from the strict rules of Mao, they are still finding their way in a new government in which things are very different for them. But he makes numerous friends and even joins a basketball team. And while there is some culture shock, he loves the job he is doing and truly enjoys the company of the people he meets (except for the guy who punches puppies).

This book is mostly about the people Michael interacts with. From businessmen, to his basketball coach to the students, they all are different from him, but he is surprised to learn how different from each other they are as well. Not only are some of them just trying to make a better life for themselves, they are experiencing new trends in their culture like popular music, the notion of romance, and holidays from other countries. And while these may seem like silly things to be obsessed with, it's such a difference and such a freedom that wasn't there before that these are big things. And I like the way he describes everyone as being so enthusiastic about things. You rarely see someone get that excited for Christmas or pizza here that it's refreshing. He has a few students that identify with the Communist party but he even describes them as being deeply intelligent with good points on a lot of topics and is fair to them even though their views differ from his own. Actually that's about the best compliment (although there are many) that I could give Michael; he is exceedingly fair to everyone around him.

This is definitely a memoir and covers the two years that Michael spent in the Peace Corps. While it made me rethink my China notion because of some of the customs there I might have trouble with (learning to eat dog, contests not being fairly won, not being able to exercise in some parts because of air quality) it still made me realize I want to be a volunteer, no matter where I would end up. There are so many opportunities and learning experiences and while you may not be lifting people from poor living conditions in every case, you can still do a lot of other things like provide education and cultural understanding. And sometimes that is just as important. I do have to say the book was a little fast paced, I could have kept on reading it because I was so enthralled and it ended too soon for me. Michael is a very funny guy and his humor comes out in his writing. He isn't afraid to make fun of himself either, which is a very important quality.

A great Peace Corps memoir and one I would highly recommend. If nothing else it made me aware that if I was to go to China, I need to work on my drinking in order to keep up with their social norms. Drunk on one wine cooler just isn't going to cut it. Four and a half stars from this reader for an enjoyable memoir.

Kosher Chinese
Copyright 2011
240 pages

Review by M. Reynard 2013

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Jun 25, 2012 Rebecca rated it 4 of 5 stars

I laughed out loud while reading this book. Of course, having spent some time in the Peace Corps, I could relate to a lot of what the author was talking about - the language barriers, using a squat toilet (and how luxurious a "Western" toilet is), as well as eating challenges & other things. It was also interesting to read of the misconceptions that other cultures have about Americans. The Chinese perceptions were different than those I encountered in Tanzania, but misconceptions all the sam...more

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