Reading Chinese fortune cookie [electronic resource] : the making of Chinese American rhetoric / LuMing Mao.

Introduction : thinking through paradoxes
Opening topics : reading Chinese fortune cookie
Face to face : Chinese and European American
Indirection versus directness : a relation of complementarity
Terms of contact reconfigured : ("shu" or "reciprocity") encountering individualism
From classroom to community : Chinese American rhetoric on the ground
Closing comment : Chinese fortune cookie as a topic again.