- Travel, Martial arts, Description and travel, Social life and customs
An American describes his experiences after his arrival in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, including wushu training and life in post-Mao China.
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Classical in form, earnest, warm and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Mark Salzman
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 211
- Publisher
- Methuen, Yuan liu chu ban gong si, Vintage Books USA
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780241120804
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“For some reason I always had bad luck in Canton.”
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