7/7/2023 0 Comments CHINA by Tom Carter![]() ![]() On the way he is kicked out of mainland China, goes back there to work as a teacher, and is then banished again. Matthew Evans starts out at his mum’s house in Muscatine, Iowa, and ends up homeless in Hong Kong. Unlike Qiao, he is not a character in a movie where wild schemes succeed. Evans, like Qiao, finds himself broke and alone in China. Qiao, a gangster’s girlfriend fresh from jail, has skills that Matthew Evans, the antihero of Tom Carter’s An American Bum in China, couldn’t dream off. The trick works, the scared man hands over a bunch of red hundred RMB notes. Desperate, the ruse she employs is to walk into a restaurant, call a rich looking young man out of a private dining room and tell him he has got her younger sister pregnant. She knows nobody in this new city and has no money. In Jia Zhangke’s 2018 movie “Ash is Purest White”, the protagonist, Qiao, gets off a Yangtze river ferry near the Three Gorges Dam. ![]()
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