Mei-Ling Hopgood
Auteur de Lucky Girl: A Memoir
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Eric Eason
Å’uvres de Mei-Ling Hopgood
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Hopgood, Mei-Ling
- Autres noms
- Hopgood, Mei Ling
- Date de naissance
- 1973
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Detroit, Michigan, USA
Washington, D.C., USA
Buenos Aires, Argentina - Études
- University of Missouri
- Professions
- journalist
- Prix et distinctions
- White House Correspondents Association Edgar A. Poe Award (2004)
National Headliner Best in Show Award (2004)
Scripps Howard Foundation Distinguished Service to the First Amendment Award (2004)
Best of Cox First Place Investigative Award (2004)
Elle Magazine's June 2009 Reader's Prize [2009]
ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting (2004) (tout afficher 8)
Asian American Journalists Association First Place for Unlimited Subject Matter (2004)
Asian American Journalists Association First Place for Coverage of Asian-American Issues (1998) - Agent
- Larry Weissman
Sascha Alper - Courte biographie
- Mei-Ling is a freelance journalist and writer who has written for various publications, ranging from the National Geographic Traveler and New Beauty Magazine to the Miami Herald and the Boston Globe. She has worked as a reporter with the Detroit Free Press, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and in the Cox Newspapers Washington bureau, and has been a recipient of the National Headliner Best in Show as well as several other national and international awards. A newspaper feature she wrote for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the reunion with her birth family won a national award from the Asian American Journalists Association. Her first book, Lucky Girl, was published in April 2009, and she is currently writing a second non-fiction book for Algonquin Books. She lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with her husband and their daughter.
Membres
Critiques
How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other… par Mei-Ling Hopgood
This book was very fun and interesting, even for someone like me who plans to never, ever have a child.
Really interesting look at parenting norms throughout the world. Mostly proving that the "right" way to raise and care for children is a social construct based upon your culture.
On the one hand, this is engagingly written, so much so that I enjoyed it even though I have no contact with little ones. ?áAnd it does give a lot of cross-cultural examples, but no actual advice. ?áAnd, so much so that I will look for more by the author. ?áOtoh, the primary message a parent should get out of it is, do what's right for you and your child, cuz you'll almost surely be able to point to some culture that does it your way, despite what your family's culture says... and that's awfully vague & unsatisfying, I think.
I think the problem with books like this (and the bibliography does list others) is that they neglect a certain factor that weighs heavily in many families. ?áDon't we have to take into account the fact that we want our children to be happy, healthy, and successful in the culture they're growing up in? ?áAnd isn't there possibly a reason that the examples contrary to Urban Western First World are often from very small groups of people who are still primarily focused on daily survival? ?áMaybe the Aka Pygmies are the best fathers in the world, but what would happen to kids raised in NYC or London if they were actually raised that way? ?áWould they be successful and happy, or would they be always out-of-step with their peers and be wanting to drop out? ?á
And, anthropologically on a larger scale, if the Aka way is so wonderful, why are the Aka not more successful as a group? ?áWhy are they so vulnerable to encroaching influences that their way of life is disappearing? ?áOk, I'm bieing unfair to Hopgood because I'm asking questions outside the scope of the book. ?áBut I couldn't help thinking about that stuff.
Anyway, I do kinda hope that parents who don't trust their instincts, who read too many child-care books trying to find something to tell them 'the right way' to raise their obsessed-over little highness, do read this book and start having more relaxed fun with (and without) their families.… (plus d'informations)
I think the problem with books like this (and the bibliography does list others) is that they neglect a certain factor that weighs heavily in many families. ?áDon't we have to take into account the fact that we want our children to be happy, healthy, and successful in the culture they're growing up in? ?áAnd isn't there possibly a reason that the examples contrary to Urban Western First World are often from very small groups of people who are still primarily focused on daily survival? ?áMaybe the Aka Pygmies are the best fathers in the world, but what would happen to kids raised in NYC or London if they were actually raised that way? ?áWould they be successful and happy, or would they be always out-of-step with their peers and be wanting to drop out? ?á
And, anthropologically on a larger scale, if the Aka way is so wonderful, why are the Aka not more successful as a group? ?áWhy are they so vulnerable to encroaching influences that their way of life is disappearing? ?áOk, I'm bieing unfair to Hopgood because I'm asking questions outside the scope of the book. ?áBut I couldn't help thinking about that stuff.
Anyway, I do kinda hope that parents who don't trust their instincts, who read too many child-care books trying to find something to tell them 'the right way' to raise their obsessed-over little highness, do read this book and start having more relaxed fun with (and without) their families.… (plus d'informations)
Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing.Moving account of a young woman reuniting with her birth family. I enjoyed this book and found the author's struggles to assimilate to her Chinese family to be interesting and compelling.
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Statistiques
- Å’uvres
- 3
- Membres
- 361
- Popularité
- #66,480
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 39
- ISBN
- 12
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
