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An Expat Is Born
Paperback
Series: The Expat Chronicles, Book 2
Biographies GeneralTravel WritingChina
Publisher: Randy Green
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
An Expat Is Born: A New World is a true expat memoir about an American beginning a new life as a foreign English teacher at a Chinese university in Zhengzhou, China. In Book Two of The Expat Chronicles, Randy Green moves beyond arrival and into the daily work of becoming at home in a culture that was once entirely unfamiliar.
Set in 2004 and drawn from journals, correspondence, and later reflections, the story follows his first weeks of teaching, student friendships, crowded buses, campus cafeterias, local markets, unfamiliar customs, Henan history, and the small victories of learning how ordinary life works in a new country. Each experience becomes a lesson in cross-cultural adaptation: accept what you do not know, seek local friendships, make serendipity happen, simplify your life, and build new habits deliberately.
More than twenty years later, Green's recurring View From 50,000 Feet reflections connect those early adventures with what he eventually learned about expatriate life, bicultural vision, and personal reinvention. For readers who enjoy memoirs of living abroad as an expat, travel writing, cross-cultural encounters, and stories of starting over, An Expat Is Born shows how an outsider gradually adapts to a new world-one ordinary day and one baby step at a time.
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