*This Website *The eBook *The Paperback
Living in and reading about China
Feet on soil chapters.
Nose in books chapters.
Two types of chapter, alternating: Dichotomy, duality, doubly interesting.
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Extended Table of Contents in the Addendum
for a summary of what the entire book contains.
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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 [here now]
Images 1 [here now]
4 / Three Explorers [here now in full] Brand New!
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 [here now] Newer than Brand New!
Images 6 [here now]
19 / Ceremony, Ice, Mangoes, Monkeys [ebook currently]
Addendum* [here now]
Additional postings/Notifications [here now] (Our "What's new" page)
Random Footnotes** [here now]
* includes author profile
** includes link to books by author's friends
Marco Polo’s only reply to their pleadings, tradition tells, was the simple comment:
“I have not told half of what I saw.”
Hildebrand, Jesse Richardson. "The World's Greatest Overland Explorer", National Geographic Magazine (Nov. 1928).
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When I went to China, I went to teach; but every day that I stayed I thought less of what I had to teach them
and more of what I had to learn from them.
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China (1929).
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Before I reached America I knew that if I could possibly manage it and if there still be time,
I would go back.
Graham Peck, Through China’s Wall (1940).
Representative page -- Feet on Ground
Full chapter is here.
Representative page -- Nose in Books
Full chapter is here.
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One last thing:
Hardy has just published a new book, this one about birds,
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