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Paul Theroux sailed down the Yangtze with a party of American
millionaires. If this at times surprised the Chinese -- which it did
--both the idiosyncrasies of the company and the impressions of China
itself provided rich material for perceptive, witty writing. One
hesitates, in a Chinese context, to describe the book as ‘sweet sour’,
but there could be worse descriptions: good humoredly observant on the
foibles of his fellow countrymen, on the Chinese future he is often
disquietingly apprehensive. |
