Nancy E Dollahite was among the first foreigners to teach at the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Languages in Chongqing in southern China in the 1980s, where she encountered the challenges of living as a cultural outsider. While teaching ESL in Mexico, Brazil, Scotland and the US for over 30 years since, she has continued to explore how we can best communicate across cultures. Her first book was Why Americans Act That Way, published by Foreign Languages Teaching and Research Publishing House, Beijing, in l987. She edited a news digest, the China Information Bulletin, for the Northwest China Council in Portland, OR from 1990 - 1999. She is also coauthor of the textbook, Sourcework: Academic Writing From Sources, Houghton Mifflin, 2006 and has published numerous articles on teaching and cross-cultural topics. She currently writes for The Immigrant Story, a nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon
