Notes from the Other China - Adventures in Asia

Parfitt takes a look at Korea's fever-pitch nationalism and gives an assessment of the world's only Chinese democracy, has a run-in with a Nepalese rhinoceros - and one or two equally volatile Vietnamese tour guides - and ponders the actions and reactions of the people he meets.
In these pages he shares his encounters with language students from all walks of life, hotel-keepers, and - sometimes weirdest of all - his fellow travelers, in some of the less commonly visited parts of Asia.
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