*This Website *The eBook
Living in and reading about China
Feet on soil chapters. Nose in books chapters.
A dual duality: webbook - ebook, plus two types of chapter, alternating.
The complete ebook is available -- Click here
-- for less than
-- for less than the price of a plate of
General Tso's Chicken
while this website, which contains portions of the ebook, grows periodically (slowly) through sequential postings.
A paperback is also available.
See Additional postings/Notifications for further details about the website.
If the postings here are not sufficient to whet your China appetite, see the Extended Table of Contents in the Addendum
for a summary of what the entire book contains.
ebook note for beginners:
Download a free app for your Android, iOS, Mac, PC, or other web device. This will enable you to read any Kindle ebook on literally any device.
No need to transfer or convert files.
Everything is automatically reconfigured to the size of your screen, something this website also does (try it on your mobile phone, if you are not already there).
Here is the link to these apps: Free.
Further guidance: Guide.
Not your usual website, is this?
Table of Contents
- Front matter [here now]
- Preface [here now]
- Prologue [here now]
- 1 / Around the Lake [here now]
- 2 / Through Chinese Eyes [here now]
- 3 / Transformations [1/2 here now]
- Images 1 [here now]
- 4 / Three Explorers [1/2 here now]
- 5 / Three Types of Trip, and Trifles [1/2 here now] New!
- 6 / Great Wall [1/2 here now] New!
- Images 2 [here now]
- 7 / Eyes on China [ebook currently]
- 8 / Two Warriors [here now] Brand New!
- 9 / Clashes, Cars, Chengdu, City Ecological [ebook currently]
- Images 3 [here now]
- 10 / Kinds of Time [ebook currently]
- 11 / Volatility [ebook currently]
- 12 / Teddy [ebook currently]
- Images 4 [here now]
- 13 / Nanocapitalism [ebook currently]
- 14 / Joe Alsop [ebook currently]
- 15 / Bo [ebook currently]
- Images 5 [here now]
- 16 / JPD & Sledge [ebook currently]
- 17 / More Bo [ebook currently]
- 18 / Belden and the Revolution [ebook currently]
- Images 6 [here now]
- 19 / Ceremony, Ice, Mangoes, Monkeys [ebook currently]
- Addendum [includes author profile] [here now]
- Additional postings/Notifications [here now]
- Random Footnotes [here now]
One last thing:
Hardy has just published a new book, this one about birds,
30 Birds .
The Pursuit, The Bird, The Place -- for 30 different birds in North America.
Just as with the book here, there's a companion website for the book: 30Birds30.com .
- Front matter [here now]
- Preface [here now]
- Prologue [here now]
- 1 / Around the Lake [here now]
- 2 / Through Chinese Eyes [here now]
- 3 / Transformations [1/2 here now]
- Images 1 [here now]
- 4 / Three Explorers [1/2 here now]
- 5 / Three Types of Trip, and Trifles [1/2 here now] New!
- 6 / Great Wall [1/2 here now] New!
- Images 2 [here now]
- 7 / Eyes on China [ebook currently]
- 8 / Two Warriors [here now] Brand New!
- 9 / Clashes, Cars, Chengdu, City Ecological [ebook currently]
- Images 3 [here now]
- 10 / Kinds of Time [ebook currently]
- 11 / Volatility [ebook currently]
- 12 / Teddy [ebook currently]
- Images 4 [here now]
- 13 / Nanocapitalism [ebook currently]
- 14 / Joe Alsop [ebook currently]
- 15 / Bo [ebook currently]
- Images 5 [here now]
- 16 / JPD & Sledge [ebook currently]
- 17 / More Bo [ebook currently]
- 18 / Belden and the Revolution [ebook currently]
- Images 6 [here now]
- 19 / Ceremony, Ice, Mangoes, Monkeys [ebook currently]
- Addendum [includes author profile] [here now]
- Additional postings/Notifications [here now]
- Random Footnotes [here now]
One last thing:
Hardy has just published a new book, this one about birds, 30 Birds .
The Pursuit, The Bird, The Place -- for 30 different birds in North America.
Just as with the book here, there's a companion website for the book: 30Birds30.com .