Harry Shaw’s Reviews > River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze > Status Update

Read a lot more last night. A very interesting book on somebody experiencing China and communism for the first time at a boots on the ground level. My favourite chapters are the journalistic ones describing his time there. My least favourite are the bridge chapters in between those describing the history I find them boring, I don't think they're particularly well written compared to his recounts.

Started this alongside scaramouche. It's fun so far and I needed some sort of contemporary break from scaramouche. Sometimes that 1920s literature can get too flowery in how it's written especially at the moment where they've been stuck in the same place for the first 100 pages. I will go back to it as I remember Sabatinis takes quite a while to set the foundation of his stories. This however has been very funny.