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...Hsun-ching, the book's main character, was born in "the seventh year of the People's Republic of China (1956)" with "extraordinarily well developed ear-lobes." With this opening line, Salzman sets the subtly humorous tone that pervades this book...
...story begins in 1960, during a great famine. When a mysterious man saves Hsun-ching after he falls down a waterfall, Hsun-ching comes under the guidance of a Buddhist monk...
...monk teaches Hsun-ching many things, including written Chinese, English and the mysterious adventures of the Monkey King. He also passes on to Hsun-ching the quest to find a lost Buddhist scroll--the Laughing Sutra--which an American had stolen years earlier...
...when the Cultural Revolution gripped China, a group of "Chairman Mao's True Soldiers" force Hsun-ching to join the Maoist movement and work in a commune. Ten years later, Hsun-Ching gains his freedom and returns home. Finding his mentor almost dead, Hsun-Ching embarks for America to complete the quest for the Laughing Sutra...
Pianist Shu-Ching Chen-in a Young Artist Showcase concert at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at 280 The Fenway in Boston. Tickets are $6, $3 for students and elders. Call 734-1359. Tuesday...