Unabridged Audiobook
What often put me off throughout the whole narrative, is how unbearably american the author's mind is. As just one example of far too many, it takes some amazing lack of critical thinking ability to be talking in the same chapter about the difficulty of developing that very critical thinking in an environment where political discussion is discouraged, and then reproducing the standard american propaganda about alleged "massacre" on Tiananmen square (not even bothering to learn that, according to e. g. both wikileaks and actual eyewitnesses, on the square itself literally no one was killed), and about the "tank man" (not bothering to check the original video where that guy tries to prevent the tanks from *leaving* the square, and then walking away unharmed). Just like that, the author is at times oblivious to some things that are part of common sense to people born outside of US. Up to the facepalming point where sometimes her kindergarten kid has better understanding of the situation. On the other hand, the book is very informative, and overall, it at least tries to be honest and objective - and it almost succeeds in that goal, as long as you give it some slack and remember that it's written by someone raised in US. As a whole, I would say, it's a good listening or reading. Not ideal, but worth the time.
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