The Monkey King

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  Mocking is always fun

  Well, we always enjoy mocking at others cos we always think we're smarter.

  At one point I must say, as a local Hongkongese, there're some extremely unbelievable and yet absolutely hilarious incidents depicted in this novel did truly happen in my life. Yet on the other hand, I still can't avoi ... (continue)

  Well, we always enjoy mocking at others cos we always think we're smarter.

  At one point I must say, as a local Hongkongese, there're some extremely unbelievable and yet absolutely hilarious incidents depicted in this novel did truly happen in my life. Yet on the other hand, I still can't avoid from feeling unease whenever I read how discriminative Tim sounds towards Chinese (more specifically: the "Mao-Era-Chin") in the book ; while ironically he himself still got stuck in making use of the 20th century "best-seller" formula to get rich via a) writing about "THE Chinese" and b) playing around his Amercian-Chinese ethnicity.

  So if you can still stand on these typical storylines like "stupid Chinese syndromes" & "a whole new world by hybrids", then this is yet still - an enjoyable novel to read.

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• English Books
• Paperback 215 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0099962101
• ISBN-13: 9780099962106
• Publisher: Vintage
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1993
• Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others

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