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Iron & silk / Mark Salzman.
Series: Vintage departuresPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1987, 1986.Edition: 1st Vintage Departures edDescription: 211 pages ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0394755111
- 9780394755113
- DS 712 .S245 1987
Contents:
Summary: The author recounts his experiences in China, as the sole private pupil to Pan Quingfu, China's foremost martial artist, discusses his relationships with the diverse Chinese people he came to know.
Leaving ; Arriving -- A piano ; Teacher Wei ;Hong Kong ; Myopia -- Peking Duck ; Pan ; A Fisherman kissing ; A suicide -- Lessons ; A garden -- A short story ; "Mei Banfa" ; A ghost story -- Pan learns script ; A runaway ; Teacher black ; In a gallery -- Unsuitable reading ; no sad, no cry ; Thinning hair ; Bad elements -- "Don't you know it's snowing out?" ; A coffee shop ; Professor Jin -- A rat ; A night ride ; The long swords.
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, 1986.
Leaving ; Arriving -- A piano ; Teacher Wei ;Hong Kong ; Myopia -- Peking Duck ; Pan ; A Fisherman kissing ; A suicide -- Lessons ; A garden -- A short story ; "Mei Banfa" ; A ghost story -- Pan learns script ; A runaway ; Teacher black ; In a gallery -- Unsuitable reading ; no sad, no cry ; Thinning hair ; Bad elements -- "Don't you know it's snowing out?" ; A coffee shop ; Professor Jin -- A rat ; A night ride ; The long swords.
The author recounts his experiences in China, as the sole private pupil to Pan Quingfu, China's foremost martial artist, discusses his relationships with the diverse Chinese people he came to know.
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