Book Report on Kosher Chinese

Question # 1

The book is written by Michael Levy, who was a peace Corp volunteer in Guiyang, China. The basic aim of the author was to teach them English during his short living there from 2005 to 2006. The pivotal goal of the book is to highlight the culture and people of this territory. It clarifies the myths about Chinese culture and depicts that how the people manages the pace with such drastic Chinese Culture.

His stay their represents the culture and demographics of the people living in a remote place of the city of Guiyang. This part of China was immensely disconnected with the rest of the Westernized and modernized Chinese Economy. During his stay at the Guizhou University, he expounds the story with his humorous and exciting relationship with the coach, students, and various people that he meet during his visit there in the city (Miranda, 191). This book explicates that how people feel and manage the cultural, economic and demographical difference between their territory and the modernized cities like Shanghai and Beijing.

Question # 2

The food plays a vital role in the interesting and worthwhile experience of China. With intelligence and zesty good humor, Levy tells the story of his sojourn as an ESL teacher in Guiyang. "In American political terms," he writes, "it was red China, as opposed to the blue, progressive, latte-sipping China of the coast." As the only white, native speaker of English at Guizhou University, Levy soon became the center of attention. As it was his Jewish identity-which he shared with Chinese cultural icon Karl Marx--that made him an object of student fascination. Drafted as the leader of the Guizhou Jewish Friday Night English and Cooking Corner Club, he prepared challah bread on his day of Sabbath, "no matter what Rabbinic rules ...