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    <![CDATA[Iron and Silk]]>
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    <![CDATA[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 &quot;the charmingly unpretentious manner in which it penetrates a China inaccessible to other foreigners.&quot;]]>
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  <read_at>Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well presented stories from a guy who went to central China to teach English in 1983-4.  A bit scary in some ways, as I am soon of to do this same thing myself...but meanwhile it's been a quarter century of rapid changes for them.  Some &quot;issues&quot; for westerners will be the same, some not so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57239127">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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