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Author:

Holm, Bill, 1943-

Title:

Coming home crazy : an alphabet of China essays / Bill Holm ; introduction by Harrison E. Salisbury.

Publisher:

Milkweed Editions,

Copyright Date:

1990

Description:

251 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

China--Description and travel.
Holm, Bill,--1943---Travel--China.

Contents:

Thanks. A first word -- Coming home crazy -- An alphabet of China essays plus a few -- Alphabet -- AIDS -- Banking -- Black hair -- Book smuggling -- Bound feet -- Chinglish -- Dumplings -- Erhu -- Friendship -- Golden flower -- Hard seat -- Iceland -- Jesus -- Kindergarten -- Lawrence in China -- Mi Lao Shu : Mickey Mouse -- Mosque -- Night soil -- Opera --- Papers, please -- Pastorale -- Pig -- Qigong -- Red River Valley -- Swiss Army knife : a history -- Tickets, please -- Underwear -- Violin -- Waiguoren -- Xmas in China -- Yangling -- Zou Houmen -- The conclusion in which nothing is concluded -- Flies -- Police -- Huangling -- Minneota, Minnesota -- Oscar, the fixer -- What needs to be fixed -- Thanks.

ISBN:

0915943425 (alk. paper)
9780915943425 (alk. paper)
9780915943425 (alk. paper) :
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LCCN:

89036394

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

UWAX953 -- Waldorf University - Luise V. Hanson Library (Forest City)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PYAX423 -- ECC - Osgood Library (Iowa Falls)

PHAX277 -- Graceland University - Frederick Madison Smith Library (Lamoni)

TKPE492 -- Maquoketa Public Library (Maquoketa)

DAPG173 -- Mason City Public Library (Mason City)

NFPA953 -- Rake Public Library (Rake)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)