Coming Home Crazy: An Alphabet of China Essays

by Bill Holm, Harrison E. Salisbury

Release Date: 14 August, 2000

Edition: Paperback

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Another Bill Holm Delight

Minneota, Minnesota writer and poet Bill Holm shares his essays on his teaching experience and life in China. By creatively covering China's government, food, music, bureaucracy, arts, transportation, tickets, and night soil, Holm portrays a backwards, poor, xenophobic police state in which the conditions were ripe for the Tianamen Square uprising and resulting massacre.

Holm's book offers rare insight into Chinese daily life as it really is.

Great, fun, and makes you think!

Mr. Holm fills this book about China with amazing insight, stories of daily life and blood stirring tales about people trying to keep alive ideas that Americans have allowed to die and rot. What do we know about freedoms? The author shows us a nation where the people are willing to smuggle in books, learn other languages and even take in foreign ideas while living under a government that is more than willing to punish them for doing so. A nation that treat the kids like gems and the adults like resources. A nation that has recycled everything, from people to soil to noodles for thousands of years and will continue to do so forever. A book not only about Chinese culture but also about American thought.