Iron and Silk

Author(s): Mark Salzman

Location(s): China

Genre(s): Travelogue

Era(s): End of the 20th Century

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Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China’s foremost martial arts teacher

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