SOURCE: Mann, Jim. “A Trip to China that Stopped Being a Trip.” Los Angeles Times Book Review (8 May 1988): 5.
In the following review, Mann praises the detail and honesty of Theroux's description of China in Riding the Iron Rooster.
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