We found 4 book recommendations similar to American Shaolin. Full Screen Movies Collection 214K subscribers Subscribe Share 236K views 3 years ago American Shaolin - Action, Martial Arts, Comedy After being humiliated in the ring by a dirty kickboxer who. Reading it was like being abducted by an alien-a brilliant, funny, and hospitable alien who took me to another universe of sensibility. American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An Odyssey in. I don't spiritually quest I go to church. I consider foreign cultures to be really. Book enhanced with curriculum aligned questions and activities. We get the inside dope on Chinese dating, Chinese drinking games and a medical system apparently modeled on the Spanish Inquisition.Ī sensibility more alien to my own than Matthew Polly's is hard to imagine. Read American Shaolin: Flying Kicks, Buddhist Monks, and the Legend of Iron Crotch: An. Polly has a good eye for characters and introduces the reader to a Finnish messiah, a practitioner of 'iron crotch' kung fu, and his nagging girlfriend. As much a student of Chinese culture as he is a martial artist, Polly derives a great deal of humor from the misunderstandings that follow a six-foot-three laowai (white foreigner) in a China taking its first awkward steps into capitalism after Tiananmen Square. Polly's quest for manhood leads this guy from Topeka, Kans., to the Shaolin Temple, ancient home of the fighting monks and setting for 10,000 chop-socky movies. In this smoothly written memoir, 98-pound weakling Polly makes the age-old decision to turn his nerdy self into a fighting machine. Polly shares his experience as a young, awkward, tall American man in China with delightful humor, observing the cultural realities, while learning valuable lessons about life.

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