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China, Man

China, Man

by Eduardo Mestre

★★★★★ 4.7 · 10 ratings on Amazon
🏆 Bestseller in Shanghai Travel Guides

About This Book

Sometimes you have to step pretty far off the beaten path in order to find your way back on. Ed is a twenty-two-year-old misfit from New York. He quickly finds that with a liberal arts degree, the only thing he is qualified to do is teach English, and the only place where he is qualified to teach English is in...China. In Shanghai, he befriends three like-minded expats and ditches the classroom for the city’s devilish nighttime pursuits. After nearly drowning in an alcohol-fueled baby pool wrestling match, he begins to wonder whether he’s on the right path. Who does he want to become? Maybe his unheralded school holds the answers. China, Man is an outrageous true story. From study hall to seedy discos, come join Buddhist monks, business-savvy prostitutes, and gangly high school students all in pursuit of the answer to life’s most fundamental question: Who am I?

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Eduardo Mestre

Eduardo Mestre

Eduardo Mestre grew up in Manhattan and now lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, with his wife, Sophie, and their young son, Rafael. He is not a professional writer. Years after his time teaching in Shanghai, he now helps run a startup in the vegetable space and goes by Ed. He is the author of China, Man: A Year of Misadventure Teaching English in Shanghai.

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