The Laughing Sutra
A Academic, Fantasy, School book. The Laughing Sutra, although fiction, is the perfect counterpoint to Salzman's nonfiction book, Iron...
Iron & Silk, Mark Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China, introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of Hsun-ching, a naive but courageous orphan, and the formidable and mysterious Colonel Sun, who together travel from mainland China to San Francisco, risking everything to track...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780679735465 / 679735461
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This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Very good adventure of a young chinese man who is taken in by a lone buddhist monk when he is rescued from an almost fatal fall from a large waterfall.I kept thinking of the two main male characters several times after finishing the book. I realized that... The Laughing Sutra, although fiction, is the perfect counterpoint to Salzman's nonfiction book, Iron & Silk. Salzman is the main figure in Iron & Silk, showing the cultural differences between the American and Chinese through his viewpoint. In The Laughing Sutra, he is able to turn the tables and present these differences from the viewpoints... THE LAUGHING SUTRA by Mark Salzman is a humorous look into the misadventures of a young orphan boy, Hsun-Ching, during the tumultuous period of Cultural Revolution in China. Tossed over a waterfall as a child, rescued by a mysterious stranger, and then placed into the care of a solitary Monk named Wei-ching, a collector of sutras who...
