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"Although this is a third-person narrative, the conversations between the central character, Kai Lung, and those he meets during his itinerant wanderings are written in what might best be described as imaginary scholarly Mandarin, but rendered in ornate English -- language that's high flown, oblique, courtly in the extreme, and sneak-up-on-you droll. As one admirer put it, "Set in the lush atmosphere of a China that never was, Kai Lung's adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables."
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