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Title: Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays by Bill Holm, Harrison E. Salisbury ISBN: 1-57131-250-1 Publisher: Milkweed Editions Pub. Date: 14 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Another Bill Holm Delight
Comment: Minneota, Minnesota writer and poet Bill Holm shares his essays on his teaching experience and life in China. By creatively covering China's government, food, music, bureaucracy, arts, transportation, tickets, and night soil, Holm portrays a backwards, poor, xenophobic police state in which the conditions were ripe for the Tianamen Square uprising and resulting massacre.
Holm's book offers rare insight into Chinese daily life as it really is.
Rating: 4
Summary: Having Lived In China I Enjoyed This Visit
Comment: Bill brings back memories of life in China and the amazing difficulties people deal with daily.
My time in Guangzhou in the south only varied by climate with Bill's Xian existence, and his wish to return to these education-loving students is familiar as I observe the attitudes of American students falter. I could smell the baoudze and see the Overseas Chinese tai chi in the parks just from enveloping myself in the book on my Metro train. Missed a few stops, too. Thank you Bill for your caring rendition of the life and I wish you continued travel to China.
Rating: 1
Summary: Definitely not one of my favorite China reads...
Comment: Bill Holm's book sits among the many I've read during my consistent and methodical research of China, and embarrassingly so. I struggled greatly just getting through the opening and could not help becoming irritated at Holms' seemingly pompous and egotistical views of Chinese culture. I've traveled to China and other parts of Asia and have managed to keep in mind that if one travels to another country with expectations born out of their own culture, they end up making sarcastic, pessimistic, negative remarks about their experience. Not all of this is true concerning Holm's work. Some parts of the book were fairly accurate, but nothing that in my opinion deserves a second glance. He appeared to sprinkle a heavy amount of egotism and fluff into the mix, regurgitating much of his past knowledge and studies in response to a culture over five thousand years older than our own. This left a very bad taste in my mouth and especially the fact that he has taught ESL in the country for only a year. I personally think that this book simply served as a stage on which to act out his superior attitude and like some so-called educated individuals, simply regurgitate memorized facts in which to impress his audience, adding rote references to his own egotism and clumsy, rude American ways, which do not make up for this embarrassment. I would not recommend this book to someone researching China culture but possibly to someone looking for entertainment by a pseudointellectual keeping the seesaw of low self-esteem versus ego balanced with his attempt at humor.
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Title: River Town : Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler ISBN: 0060953748 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 24 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: A Million Truths by Linda Jakobson ISBN: 0871319195 Publisher: M Evans & Co Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet China (LONELY PLANET CHINA) by Damian, Harper, Marie Cambon, Katja Gaskell, Thomas Huhti, Bradley Mayhew, Korina Miller, Mielikki Org ISBN: 1740591178 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: China Wakes : The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power by Sheryl Wudunn, Nicholas D. Kristof ISBN: 0679763937 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth by Bill Holm ISBN: 157131251X Publisher: Milkweed Editions Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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