false 6050859 2 Blending elements of the surreal with carefully observed details of life in present-day Beijing, Jonathan Tel's short stories offer a rich and highly entertaining guide to the city and its many varied inhabitants--from a modern-day Monkey King to an equally contemporary indentured servant, from a boy tasting his first cotton candy to a Ming Dynasty princess posting her first online profile. The stories offer a vicarious tour through modern Beijing and a long view of Chinese history. The reader flies through the book, chuckling over one character's trickery, moved by another's plight, and horrified at another's unwitting actions, until reaching the culminating novella, which brings the whole book and its take on China back to the Western reader with a stunning immediacy. 6226594 2 6 2009 The Beijing of Possibilities total:10|5:3|4:5|3:1|2:0|1:1| 10 39 29 5 5 0 true false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 11:31:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 08 12:03:43 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 13:10:24 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 13:10:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 23 21:12:54 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 23 21:17:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Oct 07 16:34:07 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 12:39:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 20:47:42 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 20:53:30 -0700 2009 http://absorbedinwords.blogspot.com/2009...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Nov 16 03:17:23 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 16 03:17:23 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Sat Nov 14 08:32:05 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 14 08:32:05 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 29 07:33:09 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 29 07:33:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Sep 17 11:03:56 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 11:03:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Aug 26 06:48:09 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 06:48:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 25 18:58:55 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 18:58:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 25 17:39:18 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 17:39:18 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 15:37:03 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 15:37:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 13:27:09 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 12:31:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 13 15:58:30 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 13 15:58:30 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Aug 07 13:09:24 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 13:09:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 03 15:44:57 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 15:44:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 27 12:02:09 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 06:44:45 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 12:02:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jul 13 16:31:49 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 13 16:31:49 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Jul 07 08:46:14 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 08:46:14 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6050859