Riding the Iron Rooster (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Theroux
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Travel
- Time of Work: 1986
- Setting: People's Republic of China
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Social issues, 1980’s, Trains, China or Chinese people
- Locales: China
Already a master of the travel book by virtue of having published such modern classics as The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (1975), The Old Patagonian Express: By Train Through the Americas (1979), and The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around Great Britain (1983), Paul Theroux hardly required any encouragement to write another one—especially one about a country as grand and inscrutable as China. Besides, he was piqued and challenged by the Chinese proverb “We can always fool a foreigner,” since he was a sophisticated and well-traveled foreigner...
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