Thailand Ten Days Talk: The Amazing Adventures of Chinese Youth in Thailand

Author: Wu Yue
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: Thailand, originally a closed and mysterious Buddhist kingdom where "everyone was a monk," even the king had to ordain, with monks in yellow robes on every street, but these monks all ate meat. There were elephants everywhere, and people raised them just like Chinese raised cattle and horses. Heavy and clumsy labor was all done by elephants. Women were hardworking and in charge of everything, while men were lazy, smoked opium, and relied on women to support them. In recent decades, Thailand has become an international tourist destination and has opened up. Coastal cities in the south have seen rapid changes, with skyscrapers, crowded streets, and prostitutes everywhere. The gap between the south and the north, the coast and the interior, and the rich and the poor has widened. There have been drug production and trafficking centers like the "Golden Triangle,", and. This book follows the main character Wu Yonggang, a young intellectual, describing how he fled from mainland China to Hong Kong through Thailand in the early 1970s and the reasons and process behind it. It also describes how he returned to Thailand in the late 1980s to find his lost youth and love from 16 years ago. The book tells many vivid and interesting stories about Thailand, recreating its strange and varied customs. Most importantly, it truthfully and thoroughly depicts the love of a "traitor" for his homeland and the affection of a "cheater" for his wife.