What is the author's style in Iron & Silk by Mark Salzman?

In Iron & Silk, author Mark Salzman writes an account of his own experiences in the Hunan Province of China. He accepts a position to teach English to doctors, teachers, and medical students at the Hunan Medical College. The work is written in the first-person narrative and given that Salzman is relating his own experiences, he is naturally the best person to write about them.