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Don't Joke on the Stairs
How I Learned to Navigate China by Breaking Most of the Rules
Published by Blacksmith Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
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About The Book
China—what’s not to love?
Join longtime Hong Kong resident and Cantonese fundamentalist Cecilie Gamst Berg as she ploughs through the non-stop surreal-fest that is today’s China, stopping occasionally to ruminate about the travails of trying to make Cantonese a world language, and how the Chinese have invented a new English: Manglish.
In this book you’ll find answers to everything you wanted to know about China, such as:
Traveling by horse, train and sleeper bus from the deserts of Xinjiang, across the mountains of Tibet and Sichuan to the water buffalo fields of Hong Kong, Cecilie shows you how China is not only the most happening place on Earth, but also the most fun.
Join longtime Hong Kong resident and Cantonese fundamentalist Cecilie Gamst Berg as she ploughs through the non-stop surreal-fest that is today’s China, stopping occasionally to ruminate about the travails of trying to make Cantonese a world language, and how the Chinese have invented a new English: Manglish.
In this book you’ll find answers to everything you wanted to know about China, such as:
- What does "the slippery are very crafty" really mean?
- What’s the etiquette for hitch-hiking in really small cars?
- What’s the best way to gatecrash a Ketamine party?
- Indeed, what is modern party etiquette in China? And:
- How do you win a fist-fight with a hotel security guard?
Traveling by horse, train and sleeper bus from the deserts of Xinjiang, across the mountains of Tibet and Sichuan to the water buffalo fields of Hong Kong, Cecilie shows you how China is not only the most happening place on Earth, but also the most fun.
Product Details
- Publisher: Blacksmith Books (January 16, 2012)
- Length: 356 pages
- ISBN13: 9789881900203
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I cannot remember the last time I read such an insightful, yet hilarious, assessment of modern China ... I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone interested in China and Hong Kong and how, despite their problems, they remain fascinating to both the traveller and the resident.
– The Culture Vulture
Within a few pages, readers begin to experience a surprising wish to meet the author. She conveys such a vibrant joie de vivre, making it easy to smile and adopt the same zestful attitude. She must be fun to know, a talkative live-wire. ... Readers share the sights, sounds, tastes and humor of the author's travels without facing the bad weather, hassles and long train rides. That's worth the price of a book. Don't Joke on the Stairs isn't the most comprehensive book ever written about China. It's not the best-researched, the most insightful or the most enlightening. But it may be the most fun to read.
– Cairns Media Magazine
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