Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking Through Paradoxes 1 Opening Topics: Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie 2 Face to Face: Chinese and European American 3 Indirection versus Directness: A Relation of Complementarity 4 Terms of Contact Reconfigured: ("Shu" or "Reciprocity") Encountering Individualism 5 From Classroom to Community: Chinese American Rhetoric on the Ground 6 Closing Comment: Chinese Fortune Cookie as a Topic Again Endnotes Index

About the Author

LuMing Mao is associate professor and director of graduate studeis in the department of English at Miami University. He teaches and researches Chinese and European American rhetorical traditions, Chinese American rhetoric, linguistics, pragmatics, and writing in multicultural spaces.