Boxing with Shadows Travels in China

Johnston, Brian

ISBN 10: 0522847471 / ISBN 13: 9780522847475

Editore: Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1997

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Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition - Card Covers. 223 pages. A beautifully crafted account of the author's two and half years living and travelling in China. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

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• Titolo: Boxing with Shadows Travels in China
• Editore: Melbourne University Press, Carlton
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0522847471
• ISBN 13: 9780522847475
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Edizione: Reprint.
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Travel

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Riassunto

Boxing with Shadows is a beautifully crafted account of the two and half years Brian Johnson spent living and travelling in the People's Republic of China. He recreates his encounters with contemporary China and the Chinese with perceptiveness, subtlety and powers of evocation. At the same time he reveals the growing sense of loneliness and vulnerability he experienced, and his frustration at the mutual bafflement of his social exchanges with people of such a differing culture and language.
Boxing with Shadows is unique in its treatment of ethnic minority groups in China, and in giving a perspective on Chinese politics and society after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown.

Informazioni sull?autore

Brian Johnston spent two and a half years teaching English as a Foreign Language at Sichuan University in Chengdu, in Chinas's south-west.