Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet -- Theme and Subject

Food

• A Man-Eats-Man World; and the Empire Writes (and Cooks) Back
• A Taste of Both Worlds
• Eat, Drink, and Be Merry
• Sweet Sour, Sour Sweet -- Food as Philosophy of Life

Family

• The Family in Rushdie and Mo

Gender Matters

• Women View Men; Men View Women
• Male and Female, Status, and Indirection
• Gender Roles in Mo's Sour Sweet
• Lily and Chen Arrive at a Decision: Male and Female, Status, and Indirection

Border Crossing, Cultural Misunderstanding

• Shame and Victmization in Rushdie and Mo
• Chinese versus Western Views of Beauty
• Chinese Immigrant Misunderstandings of the English
• Two Chinese Travel Essays on European Cities
• Translation and Non-Translation in Post-Colonial Literature: Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet
• Culture of Balance and Balance of Cultures: A Gendered Approach to Cross-Cultural Adaptation Process in Timothy Mo's Sour Sweet