How Long to Read Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok

How Long Does it Take to Read Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 16 minutes to read Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok by Kim Pao Yu

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Bangkok in the 1950s and early 1960s was a relatively small city consisting of exotic temples and palaces built in bygone days surrounded by rows of commercial and residential shophouses. Author Kim Pao Yu, a child born into a traditional Northern Chinese family, writes about his parents, their origins in Shandong, and how they escaped the war and communism in China to settle in Bangkok. In Where Chingchoks Chirp, a collection of essays, he shares his parents’ beliefs and values, their hopes and joys, and their struggles to ensure a better life for their children. Raised in a shophouse where his parents owned an antique and furniture store, situated in a compound inhabited by immigrant Chinese from Swatow, Kim describes everyday activities—the myriad vendors who sold their goods and services, the neighborhood children and the games they played, and how they celebrated holidays and festivals. The selections also cover the food and recipes his mother left as a legacy; his memories of people and experiences encountered while growing up; and his adventures at an American school as a local Chinese boy attending with the children of American expatriate and military families that shaped his thinking as he left Bangkok for higher learning in the United States. Where Chingchoks Chirp shares the sights, sounds, and smells of the bygone days of Bangkok, now a modern, bustling city that still retains much of its past.

How long is Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok?

Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok by Kim Pao Yu is 313 pages long, and a total of 79,189 words.

This makes it 106% the length of the average book. It also has 97% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 12 minutes to read Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok aloud.

What Reading Level is Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok?

Where Chingchoks Chirp My Childhood Days in Bangkok is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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