The Ethnographic Work of Cross-Cultural Memoir

Question: Define The Ethnographic Work of Cross-Cultural Memoir? Answer: According to the question, the overall story of this book is overall based on the authors life in Fuling. On this story, authors main reflection was on the landscape in the locality, history and local stories of that locality, and the main theme is the people of that area named Fuling. This Fuling is a small town in China. According to the authors story, this is a river town. The author tries to highlight his involvement in the local life. He tries to share some interesting moments of two years experience in the town. As per Besemeres (2010), the author used some pseudonym of the local characters that he described in the book, in case the main subjects and storyline of the book is very sensitive. He did not change some name of the popular places like The Yangtze or Hong Kong. Whereas, according to the story of the book is not based only on China. This story is based on a certain part of the China. Whereas the well known place, The Murky Yangtze, the green mountain where the author li ved, some moments are more difficult to describe the experience gained by the author. Soder (2008) opined that the people of the town were always in full of life and they all staying alive by the help of one most valuable thing, that thing was hope. That is the main conclusion of the authors story. The author gained these experiences to spend two years in the River Town: Yangtze. References: Besemeres, Mary. "The Ethnographic Work of Cross-Cultural Memoir." Auto/Biography Studies25.2 (2010): 219-230 Soder, Roger. "Books for Summer Reading."Phi Delta Kappan89.10 (2008): 741