"China Inside Out" Afterword

The Afterword of “China Inside Out” by Bill Dodson is largely a summary of all the major points that the author made while writing this book, just in case the reader forgot why they were reading. It is much like his introduction in the way that he summarizes his points, just without referring to each chapter by name. He does, however, introduce the subjects with a few different anecdotes. For example, he brings up the damage done to New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina and the length of time it took them to recover compared to China coming back from its own disasters (Dodson 225). In my conclusion, I intend on referring back to the beginning of my essay. Dodson does this by referring to human flesh searches in Chapter 10, but not his Afterword (Dodson). He also speculates for future research, something that I will attempt, by leaving the open ending of “that’s a whole other story completely” (Dodson 236). Finally, he does a nice job of speaking about the global impact of China’s future, but he does not speak as much to the personal impact that his research has, something I intend to flesh out more in my own essay.