The road to Sleeping Dragon learning China from the ground up
In 1995, at the age of twenty-three, Michael Meyer joined the Peace Corps and, after rejecting offers to go to seven other countries, was sent to a tiny town in Sichuan. Knowing nothing about China, or even how to use chopsticks, Meyer wrote Chinese words up and down his arms so he could hold conver...
| Main Author: | Meyer, Michael J., 1972- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; London ; Oxford :
Bloomsbury
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- A plunge into the Middle Country
- On the Stall-for-time River
- Every village faces the Sun
- Sinking in
- Parting the cloud of compassion
- Far and away in Tibet
- Tomorrow will be even better (but today things will just get worse)
- Thought liberation
- Beijing spring
- Meet the parents
- Signposts
- Three protests
- Arrivals and departures
- Digressions on the New Frontier
- Countdown clocks
- Defending the ghosts
- Learning to speak Olympics
- The road to Sleeping Dragon
- "One world, one dream" one year later
- A trans-Siberian exit.