{"product_id":"apologies-to-my-censor-the-high-and-low-adventures-of-a-foreigner-in-china-isbn-9780062124432","title":"Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China","description":"\u003cp\u003eInspired by his article “Rent a White Guy,” published in The Atlantic, comes a chronicle of Moxley’s outrageous adventures in Beijing--from fake businessman to Chinese propagandist to low-budget music video star--as well as a young man’s search for identity in the most unexpected of places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitch Moxley came to Beijing in the spring of 2007 to take a job as a writer and editor for China Daily, the country’s only English-language national newspaper. The Chinese economy was booming, the Olympics were on the horizon, and Beijing was being transformed into a world-class city overnight. Moxley planned to stay through the Olympics and then head back to Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat was five years ago. In that time Moxley has fed a goat to a tiger, watched a bear ride a bicycle while wearing lingerie (he has witnesses), and has eaten scorpions and silkworms. He also appeared as one of Cosmopolitan’s 100 most eligible bachelors in China, acted in a state-funded Chinese movie, and was paid to pose as a fake businessman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese experiences, and many more, are chronicled in Tall Rice, the comic adventures and misadventures of Moxley’s time in China and his transformation into his alter ego—Mi Gao, or Tall Rice. The books spans the five years that Moxley has lived in China; five years that coincide with China’s arrival on the world stage and its emergence as a global superpower. A funny and honest look at expat life, and the ways in which a country can touch and transform you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when a Canadian journalist trades his quiet life for the chaos of pre-Olympics Beijing?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eExpat Life in China:\u003c\/b\u003e From feeding a goat to a tiger to witnessing a bear ride a bike in lingerie, this is a ground-level view of the country’s most surreal moments.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eCulture Shock:\u003c\/b\u003e Follow Moxley’s journey as he becomes an accidental propagandist for the state-run newspaper \u003ci\u003eChina Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, learning firsthand that journalism has “Chinese characteristics.”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRent a White Guy:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover the bizarre world of fake businessmen, where Westerners are paid just to show up, shake hands, and give a company “face”—a story so strange it went viral.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFish Out of Water:\u003c\/b\u003e A hilarious and honest story about finding yourself in the last place you’d ever think to look, from becoming one of \u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e’s “Hottest Bachelors” to starring in a low-budget music video.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | \u003cp\u003eThe story of a young man's outrageous adventures in China and his search for identity in the most unexpected of places.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMitch Moxley came to Beijing in the spring of 2007 to take a job as a writer and editor for \u003cem\u003eChina Daily\u003c\/em\u003e, the country's only English-language national newspaper. The Chinese economy was booming, the Olympics were on the horizon, and Beijing was being transformed into a world-class city overnight. Moxley planned to stay only through the Olympics and then head back to Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut that was six years ago. In that time, Moxley fed a goat to a lion, watched a lingerie-wearing bear ride a bicycle, and crisscrossed the country writing stories. He also appeared as one of \u003cem\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/em\u003e's one hundred most eligible bachelors in China, acted in a state-funded Chinese movie, and was paid to pose as a fake businessman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuring Moxley's journey of self-exploration, his comic adventures and misadventures in China gave way to the creation of his alter ego—Mi Gao, or Tall Rice. 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