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One Drop of Favor Returned Like a Bubbling Well: Four Weeks in China: June-July 2013
Follow China journeyman Michael Buhr on his fourth excursion into China since 1988. What began as a simple act of volunteering to help a Chinese visiting scholar with his research project, developed into a friendship which later yielded a personally accompanied four week journey; the initial favor being returned a hundredfold.
Sometimes you do get a second chance to make a first impression, and a third chance and a fourth chance. In the case of returning to China time and again, experiential understanding deepens. Through a simple and honest telling of living and traveling with his Chinese friend and his fiancé and their circle of friends, we see the heart of the common people as expressed through ordinary interactions.
“One Drop of Favor Returned Like A Bubbling Well” walks the middle road between the first timer’s telling of curious and strange customs and the expert’s analysis of a culture in transformation. This low-key, no-hype narrative takes the cultural differences in stride, bypasses historical synopses readily available elsewhere, and focuses instead on narrating a story of human interaction; a story about developing another impression of China this time of the life of the common, college educated, working-class Chinese.
Sometimes you do get a second chance to make a first impression, and a third chance and a fourth chance. In the case of returning to China time and again, experiential understanding deepens. Through a simple and honest telling of living and traveling with his Chinese friend and his fiancé and their circle of friends, we see the heart of the common people as expressed through ordinary interactions.
“One Drop of Favor Returned Like A Bubbling Well” walks the middle road between the first timer’s telling of curious and strange customs and the expert’s analysis of a culture in transformation. This low-key, no-hype narrative takes the cultural differences in stride, bypasses historical synopses readily available elsewhere, and focuses instead on narrating a story of human interaction; a story about developing another impression of China this time of the life of the common, college educated, working-class Chinese.
219 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2014
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