Matthew Polly




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avg rating: 3.96 | 560 ratings | 183 reviews | 6 distinct works
American Shaolin: Flying Kicks... American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
by Matthew Polly
avg rating 3.96 — 512 ratings — published 2006
5 editions
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Shaolin: Temple of Zen Shaolin: Temple of Zen
by Justin Guariglia, Shi Yong Xin, Matthew Polly
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published 2007
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American Shaolin American Shaolin
by Matthew Polly
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2007
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American Shaolin: Flying Kicks... American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: an Odyssey in the New China
by Matthew Polly
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008
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American Shaolin American Shaolin
by Matthew Polly
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American Shaolin: One Man's Qu... American Shaolin: One Man's Quest to Become a Kungfu Master
by Matthew Polly
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009
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"It is difficult for my fellow countrymen who have never lived abroad to understand that until a foreign man is about sixty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he'd like to punch an American in the face. Even people like the Chinese, who mostly like us, think of us--at least partly--as loud, fat, poorly dressed, overprivileged, hectoring, naive, arrogant, self-righteous bullies with little knowledge and no interest in any culture other than our own. I once had a conversation with a Japanese journalist who said to me, "You don't seem like an American." When I asked him, slightly hurt, why he said that, he replied, "Because you listen.""
Matthew Polly (American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China)
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