Priscilla Wong had six boyfriends. Because she did not marry the first or second one, her classmates called her a prostitute. Yet she was still a virgin. A virigin whore. Perhaps the contradiction could only exist in China. I grew fond of the idea, for it seemed a perfect caricature of China as a whole--rich history coexisting with drab modernity, corruption with innocence, membership of the nuclear club while burdened with poverty."
Clive Leatherdale found himself caught up in the student uprisings that climaxed with the Tiananmen massacre. His travels and traumas are detailed in this entertaining, and often biting, account of China
