Publisher's Synopsis
In 2002 the author, Mark Bond, took his family deep into central China after taking a position at a Chinese university teaching business English and literature. Leaving everything in Salt Lake City, Utah and arriving in Henan, China with only their bags, the family of five discovered both nuance and simplicity within China. With remnants of Maoist China still found among the peasants in the countryside and extreme wealth and industry being created in the major metropolises of the country, China proved to be a life-altering experience. The family also had to confront an insidious disease that would become a worldwide epidemic: SARS. This is the story of China in the age of SARS. This all culminated with them having to escape the college campus in dead of night in order to get themselves out of the Province. The next morning, the rest of the foreign teachers were quickly put on lock down and the university surrounded by the PSB for six weeks with no entry or exit permitted...
