


In addition, drinking games, language, sex (or at least attempts), “the sixth race”, the Chinese Triads and other topics are intertwined with this very enjoyable story.

My expectation of this book was that this would be a martial arts, culture clash and personal transformation story. Matthew Polly did just that, leaving his junior year from college and heading to China in 1992. Almost every martial artist has some wayward fantasy or frequent daydream about dropping out of life and dropping into the Shaolin Temple, to emerge some undetermined time later as a well-tuned, philosophy spouting fighting machine.
