Remembering Xinxiang

William L. Adams has led a varied and exciting life, severing in the United State Navy as an officer and teaching around the world. On sabbatical in 1999, he journeyed to central China, the "real China," and spent a year teaching writing and British and American history at Henan Normal University. It is his experience there, living and teaching in impoverished Henan province - China's most populated province - that inspired this book.