Delaney on Chapter 6 & 7

Bill Dodson has a very particular style throughout his book China Inside Out. This style is a mixture of facts and figures and the use of personal anecdotes or anecdotes of other people’s lives. Chapter 6 begins with a personal anecdote about his journey to a place called Yantai. This then leads into the main topic that is the infrastructure of Yantai. With every new section Bill Dodson starts off with an anecdote and then begins to work in his facts and figures that he has researched. Sometimes he would switch up the way the chapter is voiced by beginning with facts and figures of the issues he is pointing out and ending with personal accounts of his time in China. Overall though he always puts it all together and forms his own opinions through what he has experienced and the facts and figures that he has researched and written in the chapter.

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Chapter 7 of Dodson’s China Inside Out is very similar to how he structures all of the other chapters with minor differences. One difference is the fact that he began the chapter with a story that was not his own. Throughout the chapter, at least in the beginning of it the stories that he describes come from the news and articles that he came across. It lacks a personal touch, not to say that the stories he is using are impersonal, but rather they are impersonal to him. He then gets into the facts and figures just like every other chapter and begins to develop the issue that the chapter exposes. Towards the latter part of the chapter he does begin to mix in his own personal stories. This brings him back to how he normally structures the chapter, however it is different because of the order in which he chose to portray it. Again the chapter ends with facts and figures and just a summation of all of his ideas.