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J. Maarten Troost, author of the bestselling comic travel memoir THE SEX LIVES OF CANNIBALS, dives head first into the bizarre multiple personalities of modern China: an exotic beast with one foot firmly mired in its ancient past and the other stepping eagerly into the frenzied neo-capitalist free-for-all. He confronts the outlandish Chinese cuisine--including yak and cattle penis--visits the embalmed body of Mao (whose propaganda still hovers above the land like a hallucination), and battles with tiny grandmothers for his place in line. Troost's writing is full of gusto and absurdity, but past the laughter, LOST ON PLANET CHINA provides a vivid glimpse into the heart of the world's most powerful and peculiar cultures.
| Size | | Length: | 382 pages | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 9.9 oz |
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