Chinese lessons : five classmates and the story of the new China /
A first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years. As a 20-year-old exchange student from Stanford in 1981, Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule--the Great Leap F...
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Table of Contents:
- Warmly welcome you
- The slap
- Broken wing
- Father's lessons
- Black bricks
- A meat pie from heaven
- Bitter love
- Party animal
- Outside the gates
- New street crossing
- A handful of bran
- Spiritual pollution
- Petrified marriage
- Yin finds yang
- Crossed paths
- Show me the money
- To the barricades
- Asylum
- Fishy handshakes
- Fake foreign devils
- Killing the chickens
- White like mother's milk
- Rice bowl Christians
- Yes man
- Homecoming
- The adman
- The China price
- Spiritual civilization
- Gods and animals
- Pine on a cliff
- Endure
- Crawling home
- The enthusiasms of high altitude
- Severe and acute
- High tides
- Thugs' revolution
- My place in the procession
- Conclusion: The Chinese dream.