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After many unconventional adventures--such as riding to Hong Kong in a train full of pigs and trading Sun's talents as a dwarf tosser for passage to America--the two adventures finally steal the sutra from a Buddhist library in the United States and return to China...
...Laughing Sutra...
...Laughing Sutra, Mark Salzman's new adventure novel about life in communist China, is a perfect book for light reading, whether one is interested in China or not. Although the book does not give great insight into Chinese culture, it does raise thought-provoking issues about the lives and hopes of the citizens of China...
...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...
...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...