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An irreverent tale of an American Jew serving in the Peace Corps in rural China, which reveals the absurdities, joys, and pathos of a traditional society in fluxIn September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.While reveling in the peculiarities of life in China's interior, the author also discovered that the "other billion" (people living far from the coastal cities covered by the American media) have a complex relationship with both their own traditions and the rapid changes of modernization. Lagging behind in China's economic boom, they experience the darker side of "capitalism with Chinese characteristics," daily facing the schizophrenia of conflicting ideologies.Kosher Chinese is an illuminating account of the lives of the residents of Guiyang, particularly the young people who will soon control the fate of the world.

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Michael Levy's "Kosher Chinese" came recommended by a cheerful bibliophile who runs a great restaurant. The cover looked like a big sushi with a picture of Mao on it. At the incredibly low price of a used book, why not?Readers, this is not a cookbook and that sushi is a yarmulka of an Orthodox Jew with a picture of Mao on it, the black seaweed wrapping actually Michael Levy's hair. This narrative of a 29 year old ESL/literature teacher's two years in China as a Peace Corps volunteer has plenty about eating, the alimentary canal, food and cuisine. These are incidental, compared to what else "Kosher Chinese" covers. The book is more concerned with friendships, the fiddler-on-the-roof quality of respecting an ancient, complex culture while "representing" the United States, and the dilemnas facing many us, wherever we live, when our reach exceeds our grasp however good our intentions.Levy is a fine writer and a man who goes with the flow. For example, his colleagues at the University in Guiyang initiate a Friday Shabbos, 'with Chinese characteristics.' In search of cheese for a pizza to be served by popular demand, Mike and his Chene colleague Jennifer pass through a meat market that leaves him queasy:"We listened to music until my stomach was completely settled and then entered the restaurant supply store. Towards the back, tucked into a corner, was a freezer. Inside the freezer were bricks of long-frozen cheese. I pulled out a two-foot long, twenty-five pound bag of frozen parmesan, feeling like Oliver Twist. It would be enough cheese for a year. "Now you can cook us pizza for Shabbat!" Jennifer was twitching with excitement...." (p.92)."Kosher Chinese" could be in itself, almost, a validation of relevance of the Peace Corps in the spinning political-economic globe of today. Even more, it is a reminder that way down deep,as well as close to the surface, the world has many caring, compassionate people who with humor, determination, and skill are themselves the bridges we need built----while having themselves & giving to others one heckuva memorable experience, composed of moments---like the picnic with the Wang sisters and the final basketball game---great and small.Any reader alerts? Remember this is a narrative story, not an analytic tale. It is produced as a basic book. There is no index, no maps, no heavy-weight paper, no photographs----and no recipes. For those, readers would need to select from among the five Chinese Kosher cookbooks liberally available through Amazon.Highly recommended for a page-turning read that nourishes mind and spirit. Write on, Mike Levy, and may the force be with you!

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