Myself a Mandarin: Memoirs of a Special Magistrate by Austin Coates

Myself a Mandarin: Memoirs of a Special Magistrate

Austin Coates

250 pages • first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Unexpectedly appointed magistrate in a country district in Hongkong, the author found himself plunged into a Chinese world about which he knew next to nothing an had to learn as fast as possible.This he does, taking the reader with him through the...

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