A Bend in the Yellow River

A Bend in the Yellow River
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Publisher : Phoenix (USA)
Total Pages : 260
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ISBN-10 : 0753801140
ISBN-13 : 9780753801147
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Bend in the Yellow River by : Justin Hill

Download or read book A Bend in the Yellow River written by Justin Hill and published by Phoenix (USA). This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Justin Hill was only twenty-one when he arrived starry-eyed in Yuncheng, central China, a small town hidden among the plains of dusty Shanxi province. He was greeted by a place and people designed to shatter the most tightly held of illusions about the glories of Chinese tradition and culture: an ugly grimy town where spitting in public was encouraged and queuing was anathema, where the local TV output consisted of nightly readings of the works of Deng Xiao Ping interspersed with NBA basketball games. But after two years teaching Yuncheng's inhabitants he emerged knowing that nowhere was more authentically Chinese than this outpost nestling in the bend of the Yellow River, battling the contradictions of past and future with robust good humour.


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