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Where Underpants Come From (2008)

by Joe Bennett(Favorite Author)

3.31 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1847370012 (ISBN13: 9781847370013)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster UK

review 1: A witty, intelligent and informative book about the expansion of China and its people's increasing capacity for making themselves indispensable to the rest of the world. While you admire the determination and drive Joe is also very clear about the actual and potential environmental consequences of this vast industrialisation on the people and country.Joe also provides us with a picture of a country and people who are culturally very different and yet individually often very familiar and does it with love and respect.
review 2: Realizing I know next to nothing about China, this immediately caught my attention. And it was worth the buy. China is impossibly large and complex, so no single work can hope to capture it all. This book doesn't even try, instead choosin... moreg a simple approach - from genesis to shelf, where to underpants come from? In reality it is a travel book. Bennett spends most of his copy looking at the culture in China - the people, the food, the attitudes, the small things you cannot fathom on television or in movies.His writing is reminiscent of Bill Bryson: full of dry humour and witty observations, though with far more anecdotes. It's a light read and easy to cut through. It also serves as a great first stepping stone in demystifying this country. Bennett does not cover it all - and he never claims to try. Instead he focuses on a single purpose and through that manages to create a wholesale impression of a country few of us understand. less

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