Cover of Iron and Silk

Iron and Silk

Salzman captures post-cultural revolution China through his adventures as a young American English teacher in China and his shifu-tudi (master-student) relationship with China's foremost martial arts teacher.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Iron and Silk? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Iron and Silk. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Red Azalea Shares China, memoir, nonfiction
  2. Beijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China Shares China, memoir, nonfiction
  3. Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays Shares China, nonfiction, memoir
  4. Colors of the Mountain Shares China, memoir, nonfiction

“People who read Iron and Silk tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road
  2. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in the New China
  3. Karate-Do: My Way of Life
  4. Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

“If you want more of the same (biography about martial arts), start with these.”

  1. Daughter of the River: An Autobiography
  2. Jan Wong's China: Reports From A Not-So-Foreign Correspondent
  3. The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices
  4. Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos

“If it was the China that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Bound Feet & Western Dress
  2. Life and Death in Shanghai
  3. Foreign Babes in Beijing: Behind the Scenes of a New China
  4. The Little Red Guard

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Research of Martial Arts
  2. Negima!: Magister Negi Magi, Volume 7
  3. Chronicles of Tao: The Secret Life of a Taoist Master
  4. Dragon Ball, Vol. 3: The Training of Kame-Sen'nin