Iron & Silk: A Young American Encounters Swordsmen, Bureaucrats and Other Citizens of Contemporary China Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Iron & Silk: A Young American Encounters Swordsmen, Bureaucrats and Other Citizens of Contemporary China Book

In 1982, Salzman flew off to teach English in Changsha, China. He writes of bureaucrats, students and Cultural Revolution survivors, stripping none of their complexity and humanity. He's gentle with their idiocies, saving his sharpest barbs for himself (it's his pants that split from zipper to waist whilst demonstrating martial arts in Canton). Though dribs of history and drabs of classical lore seep through, this is mostly a personal tale, noted by the Los Angeles Times for "the charmingly unpretentious manner in which it penetrates a China inaccessible to other foreigners."Read More

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  • Product Description

    Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.


    From the Trade Paperback edition.

  • 0394551567
  • 9780394551562
  • Mark Salzman
  • 12 December 1986
  • Random House
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 211
  • 1st ed
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