Iron and Silk: A Memoir: 0000 (Vintage Departures)

Author: Salzman, Mark

Brand: VINTAGE

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Vintage Departures

Binding: paperback

Format: Deckle Edge

Number Of Pages: 224

Release Date: 01-11-1987

Part Number: 9780394755113

Details: 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.
Amazon.com Review
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."
Review
"Salzman demonstrates with skill and subtlety just how Chinese society works."--The Washington Post

"Gong fu, or 'skill that transcends mere surface beauty'...no other term is as apt for a book that describes China and its people with such deftness and delight."--Time
From the Publisher
"Salzman demonstrates with skill and subtlety just how Chinese society works."--The Washington Post
"Gong fu, or 'skill that transcends mere surface beauty'...no other term is as apt for a book that describes China and its people with such deftness and delight."--Time
From the Inside Flap
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 Back Cover
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.
About the Author
Mark Salzman is the author of
Iron & Silk, an account of his two years in China;
Lost in Place, a memoir; and the novels
The Laughing Sutra, The Soloist, and
Lying Awake.

EAN: 9780394755113

Package Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches

Languages: English