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Troost is the author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals and Getting Stones with Savages, about the years he lived in small South Pacific islands. This time, he leaves his family in California and spends months traveling throughout China. He started out with the idea that he might like to move his young family there, that it would be good for the kids to live in an exotic culture for a year. So he went to check it out, starting in Beijing, going south, then west, then going int
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