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Not just a memoir—
Rather, an afternoon with an old friend.
Dry, clear-eyed, and a little absurd…
Bob McLain went to China expecting to stay four months. He stayed six years.
In emails to family and friends, he chronicled a country changing before his eyes—and the daily absurdities of trying to live, teach, travel, eat, and occasionally survive there.
Typhoons, bureaucrats, dubious menus, broken elevators, the Chinese FBI: Bob met each with a dry wit and a historian’s eye.
He never set out to write a memoir. He simply noticed everything—and trusted the story, and the reader, to do the rest.
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