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Iron & silk / Mark Salzman.
LIBRA DS712 .S245 1987 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salzman, Mark.
- Series:
- Vintage departures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salzman, Mark.
- Travel.
- China--Description and travel.
- China.
- Martial arts--China.
- Martial arts.
- Salzman, Mark--Travel--China.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 211 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition:
- Vintage Departures edition.
- Other Title:
- Iron and silk
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
- Summary:
- "The author tells of his two years teaching English to medical students in China's Hunan Province following his graduation from yale University in 1982. This book is 'not so much a treatise on modern Chinese mores as a series of telling vignettes ... [The author] describes his encounter with Pan Qingfu, the country's foremost master of wushu, the traditional Chinese martial art.'" Time.
- Contents:
- Leaving-Arriving 1
- A Piano-Teacher Wei-Hong Kong Foot-Myopia 15
- Peking Duck-Pan-A Fisherman Kissing-A Suicide 51
- Lessons-A Garden-A Short Story "Mei Banfa"-A Ghost Story 81
- Pan Learns Script-A Runaway Teacher Black-In a Gallery 131
- Unsuitable Reading-No Sad, No Cry Thinning Hair-Bad Elements 159
- "Don't You Know It's Snowing Out?"-A Coffee Shop Professor Jin 181
- A Rat-A Night Ride-The Long Swords 197.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1986.
- ISBN:
- 0394755111
- 9780394755113
- OCLC:
- 23819411
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