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An American Bum in China

An American Bum in China

An American Bum in China

Tom Carter

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Camphor Press Ltd
Año de edición:
2019
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Biografía: general
ISBN:
9781788691802
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Down on his luck and disabled, cancer survivor Matthew Evans had nothing to lose by fleeing the farmsteads of Muscatine, Iowa, at age 21 to pursue his Chinese Dream. With all the makings of a classic folk tale, his curiosity became an epic five-year adventure that would find him homeless, stateless, posing as a professor, imprisoned, deported, and caught in the middle of the 2014 Hong Kong protests. 3

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