Riding the Iron Rooster

First edition (publ. Putnam)

Riding the Iron Rooster (1988) is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims is to disprove the Chinese maxim, "you can always fool a foreigner". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.[1]

Theroux travelled through China for a year, ending his journey in Tibet after visiting Mongolia, Xinjiang and Manchuria. He was accompanied by a bureaucrat who acted as a chaperon.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Thomas+Cook+Travel+Book+Award
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/08/reviews/theroux-ironrooster.html


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