Full Description
In 2014 Sophia Erickson graduated from college with an apparently useless degree in European history from an obscure foreign college. Faced with crippling student loan debts and after an anxious couple of months waiting tables in her small Massachusetts town, she decided to do something different and bought a one-way ticket to China.
Over the following two years she had many amazing experiences, paid off nearly half her student loans, and visited China from Heilongjiang to Hainan, as well as Myanmar, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. She wrote The China Option: A Guide for Millennials: How to work, play, and find success in China to give Millennials a path to explore their future the way she explored her own in China.
The book covers a wide range of topics from the concept of "face" to coffee culture to racism to love to LGBT issues, as well as all of the practicalities readers need to know to get in and get a job. The China Option is a manifesto for recent college grads to take control of paying off debt while living a stimulating, adventurous life and to pave a way for a successful future.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER ONE
TO BEIJING OR NOT TO BEIJING?
CHAPTER TWO
FACE
CHAPTER THREE
CHINESE BEAUTY STANDARDS
COFFEE CULTURE IN CHINA
CHAPTER FOUR
CHINESE TOILETS
CHAPTER FIVE
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE LAOWAI BIBLE
HOW TO DEAL WITH CULTURE SHOCK
CHAPTER SIX
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
CHAPTER SEVEN
RACISM
CHAPTER EIGHT
SQUARE DANCING
CHAPTER NINE
LEARNING MANDARIN
CHAPTER TEN
MASTERING MANDARIN
CHAPTER ELEVEN
ENGLISH BOOKSTORES
KTV
CHAPTER TWELVE
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE
LGBT LIFE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
POLLUTION (AND OTHER HAZARDS)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
TRAVEL IN CHINA
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
