No Chopsticks Required is Australian Walkley Award-winning journalist Katrina Beikoff’s entertaining memoir of the year she and her family spent living in Shanghai.
After Katrina and her partner accepted contracts to work at The Shanghai Daily newspaper, they relocated with their two young children and their most prized possessions. During her time in Shanghai, Katrina witnessed a range of major events: a devastating earthquake that killed over 80,000 people, a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, the Tibetan uprising, and the crippling global financial crisis.
Written in an amusing tone, Katrina’s personal observations of daily life in contemporary China are as insightful as they are as fascinating.