a brilliant collection of hilariously poignant true stories illustrate what china teaches us about happiness wealth love power and getting what you want based on a successful witty blog by a chineseamerican expatriate in shanghai these impactful insights loved by worldwide readers illuminate how china changes your world at home experience this amusingly honest residents view of the most influential country in our lifetime peek into an entertaining and thoughtprovoking world that you wont find described in newspapers or textbooks china where is all that money coming from and will it really rule the world only in china could you fall into the glamorous expat life of having a personal driver maid and private mandarin tutoronly to quickly learn that your help are all richer and more financially savvy than you enter a realm of wild possibilities and the twisted ironies of the worlds fastestgrowing emerging market a 50yearold maids family was so poor during the communist mao era they bought their son a wife in exchange for a watch decades later that same maid bought her daughter a nose job and accidentally turned her into a model in china today a new luxury mall magically appears the week you go on vacation weekends are spent at fabulous pool parties yet this authoritarian state is still far from democraticjust ask chinese mothers who create dating resumes to pimp their children out at marriage fairs learn the tricks of life success seen through the twinkling eyes of a mischievous humorist follow the sassy and smart funky chickenshameless enough to nearly do a ted talk in a chicken suit but wise enough to create a pen name in authoring this tellall tale about the worlds most powerful communist country flirting with china is fun getting arrested is not what can you learn from china and how will it change your life see for yourself