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An American in Guangzhou

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  • Marilyn Thomas

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Often what makes life so intriguing, I think, is that we never know what might be waiting for us around the next corner. In my own life, for example, if a fortune teller had predicted when I was a child that I would enter a convent in Wisconsin at the age of fourteen and then leave after spending 25 years of my life there, that a marriage of 20 years would end in divorce, that my academic career would include fellowships at Yale, Oxford, and Cambridge, that I would teach in China, everyone who knew me would have laughed at the improbability of it all, myself included. I have no idea what is next, but for me, living and teaching in China was a life-changing event. I turned many corners and discovered some wonderful surprises, all of them opening my eyes a little wider regarding cultural diversity and its many dimensions.

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  • Marilyn Thomas, 2007. "An American in Guangzhou," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Kurt A. April & Marylou L. Shockley (ed.), Diversity, chapter 21, pages 347-353, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-62752-9_22
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230627529_22
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    1. Ranasinghe, Priyanga & Jayawardana, M.A. Naveen A.A.D. & Constantine, Godwin R. & Sheriff, M.H. Rezvi & Matthews, David R. & Katulanda, Prasad, 2011. "Patterns and correlates of adult height in Sri Lanka," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 9(1), pages 23-29, January.

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