![]() Then there’s Jim’s vexed experiences with other Chinese women, who are friendly and even forward thanks to his barbarian virility but then blow him off when things get serious. He’s also appalled by the dirt and disorder, the ubiquitous construction work, the “dense layer of black grime” in commercial kitchens, the “odor of stagnant sewage,” the rats trundling about in restaurants, the scams that hustlers run on him, and the baffling disorganization of the Chinese bureaucracy (one visa office functionary does nothing but play video games). Lan promptly dumps Jim to kick off his creeping disenchantment with all things Chinese. ![]() ![]() ![]() An American expatriate in China encounters filth, fraud, and fickle women in this fictionalized memoir.Īcerbi frames his book as a third-person narrative about “Jim,” an American student who travels to the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2013, ostensibly to study at Wuhan University but mainly to reunite with his long-distance girlfriend, Lan. ![]()
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