Opere di Matthew Polly
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- c. 1975
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 706
- Popolarità
- #35,871
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 28
- ISBN
- 29
- Lingue
- 6
The 4 stars are when we see 1990s Chinese culture through his eyes especially the martial arts aspects. Martial arts movies tend to take the stereotypical parts of the culture and magnify it especially when shown through the lens of an American. This book pulls that back a bit.
The 2 stars are anything to do with women in the book. This is a coming-of-age book but the way he writes about his experiences with women are mainly about him and not as much about the women we writes about. Yes, he writes about male-female relationships and some about how they are different in China than elsewhere. But it's the way he writes about what happens that is juvenile.
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