Lost on Planet China - J. Maarten Troost [147]
Further Reading
Among the books I consulted, several proved particularly useful. Surely Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday is now the definitive word on the Great Helmsman. Jonathan Spence’s The Search for Modern China offers a sweeping and elegantly written overview of modern China. Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking ensures that one of the great crimes of World War II is not forgotten. And finally, if there is a funnier and more harrowing account of what it’s like to do business in China than Tim Clissold’s Mr. China, I have yet to find it.
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Troost, J. Maarten.
Lost on planet China: the strange and true story of one man’s attempt to understand the world’s most mystifying nation, or how he became comfortable eating live squid / J. Maarten Troost.
p. cm.
1. China—Social life and customs—2002– 2. China—Description and travel. 3. China—Humor. 4. Troost, J. Maarten—Travel—China. I. Title. II. Title: Strange and true story of one man’s attempt to understand the world’s most mystifying nation, or how he became comfortable eating live squid.
DS779.43.T76 2008
915.104'6—dc22
2008011281
eISBN: 978-0-7679-3001-7
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Author’s Note
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Acknowledgments
Further Reading
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