![]() ![]() ![]() I think what impressed me most about the story was that he was wise enough from the beginning of his journey to realize he was not in a place that merely spoke a different language. Polly had a background studying Chinese and had enough of a grasp of the language to manuever the terrain. He had to understand the culture to get in and stay in. ![]() So, Polly was quite the foreigner, carving a path through rural China trying to get to this temple. It happened in the mid 90s when few Americans went to China, whether for business or please. While this book was written in 2007, the story didn’t happen in the recent past where everyone is going to China. With Princeton not quite working out, he wisely creates a list of things to do and decides the best way to get things done would be to go to the Shaolin Temple in China. The story begins with a very brief description of Polly’s early days as a weakling. This books reads more as a coming of age story than it does a book about kung fu. For some bizarre reason, OCLC buries this book in the 790’s rather than in the biography section. ![]()
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