Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0816523029, Paperback)

Twenty-two Chinese living and working outside of China--ordinary people from all walks of life--tell us something about their lives and about what it means to be Chinese in non-Chinese societies. We meet individuals who, while loyal to their countries of citizenship, continue to observe the customs of their ancestral home to varying degrees, whether performing rites in memory of ancestors, practicing fengshui, wearing jade for good luck, or giving out red packets of lucky money for New Year.