The Road to Sleeping Dragon: Learning China from the Ground Up, Hardcover
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From the highly praised author of The Last Days of Old Beijing, a
brilliant portrait of China today and a memoir of coming of age in
a country in transition. 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
conversations, and, per a Communist dean's orders, jumped into
teaching his students about the Enlightenment, the stock market,
and Beatles lyrics. Soon he realized his Chinese counterparts were
just as bewildered by China's changes as he was. Thus began an
impassioned immersion into Chinese life. With humor and insight,
Meyer puts readers in his novice shoes, winding across the length
and breadth of his adopted country --from a terrifying bus attack
on arrival, to remote Xinjiang and Tibet, into Beijing's
backstreets and his future wife's Manchurian family, and headlong
into efforts to protect China's vanishing heritage at places like
``Sleeping Dragon,`` the world's largest panda preserve. In the
last book of his China trilogy, Meyer tells a story both deeply
personal and universal, as he gains greater - if never complete -
assurance, capturing what it feels like to learn a language,
culture and history from the ground up. Both funny and relatable,
The Road to Sleeping Dragon is essential reading for anyone
interested in China's history, and how daily life plays out there
today.
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