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Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China  Cover Image Book Book

Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China

Pomfret, John (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780805076158
  • ISBN: 0805076158
  • Physical Description: xii, 315 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : H. Holt, 2006.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note: Warmly welcome you -- The slap -- Broken wing -- Father's lessons -- Black bricks -- A meat pie from heaven -- Bitter love -- Party animal -- Outside the gates -- New street crossing -- A handful of bran -- Spiritual pollution -- Petrified marriage -- Yin finds Yang -- Crossed paths -- Show me the money -- To the barricades -- Asylum -- Fishy handshakes -- Fake foreign devils -- Killing the chickens -- White like mother's milk -- Rice bowl christmas -- Yes man -- Homecoming -- The adman -- The China price -- Spiritual civilization -- Gods and animals -- Pine on a cliff -- Endure -- Crawling home -- The enthusiasms of high altitude -- Severe and acute -- High tides -- Thug's revolution -- My place in the procession -- Concluion: the Chinese dream.
Subject: China Anecdotes

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