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Author Pomfret, John, 1959-

Title Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China / John Pomfret.

Publication Info. New York : H. Holt, 2006.

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  DS736 .P66 2006    Available  ---
Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 315 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Note Includes index.
Contents 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.
China.
Genre/Form Anecdotes.
Anecdotes.
ISBN 0805076158
Standard No. 9780805076158