![]() ![]() ![]() Much to the dismay of his parents, he dropped out of Princeton to spend two years training with the legendary sect of monks who invented kung fu and Zen Buddhism.Įxpecting to find an isolated citadel populated by supernatural ascetics that hed seen in countless badly dubbed chop-socky flicks, Matthew instead discovered a tacky tourist trap run by Communist party hacks. ![]() While in college, Matthew decided the time had come to pursue this quixotic dream before it was too late. Growing up a ninety-pound weakling tormented by bullies in the schoolyards of Kansas, young Matthew Polly dreamed of one day journeying to the Shaolin Temple in China to become the toughest fighter in the world, like Caine in his favorite 1970s TV series, Kung Fu. Bill Bryson meets Bruce Lee in this raucously funny story of one scrawny Americans quest to become a kung fu master at Chinas legendary Shaolin Temple. ![]()
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