Year of the Earth Serpent Changing Colors. A Novel.: An Anti-Marco Polo Voyage to Cathay

The whole Communist world is in the middle of a democratic revolution. Hall Gardner’s novel depicts the protests taking place prior to the June 1989 Tiananmen Square repression—a subject still taboo in China.

Hired to teach English, Mylex H. Galvin records his experience in his “Anti-Marco Polo” journal after he meets expats from around the world, while trying to come to grips with the Chinese language, history, and politics.

Galvin becomes disillusioned with the poverty and environmental des...