Letters from Guilin : a foreign expert at large
Author(s): June Garden
Letters from Guilin is an amusing and sometimes tense account of the year the author spent in Guilin, teaching English as a second language, at the Guilin University. The reader follows June through the turbulent months of 1988-89, when the student protests erupted in Beijing. It is an account of her experiences as a teacher, and as a tourist in large cities such as Beijing and small towns like the ancient, walled city of Dali. She was also, at times, an uneasy observer of the student riots in 1989. It is a compilation of the letters written to family in NZ at this time with each chapter containing the letters written in that month.
General Information
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- : Garden Publications 2008
- : Garden Publications 2008
- : 01 August 2010
- : New Zealand
- : 01 May 2012
- : books
Other Specifications
- : June Garden
- : Paperback
- : 217
- : Black and white illustrations
More About The Product
June Garden was born in Christchurch. After raising a family, she graduated from Canterbury University and Christchurch Teacher’s College as a teacher and Speech-Language Therapist. She spent many years teaching in New Zealand before travelling widely overseas. She has visited some of the more exotic countries such as Turkey, Nepal and Japan, however the longest and most eventful travels were those June enjoyed in China in 1988-89. She was contracted to teach English at the Guilin University for twelve months and spent every spare moment exploring tourist spots such as Kunming and Beijing and learning about local cultures and customs.June is an active member of the Hastings U3A and wrote her first book, Townie in the Country, in 2008, followed eighteen months later by Letters from Guilin. She has also written a family history book for her family.
