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Kendall, Gillian. Mr. Ding's Chicken Feet: On a Slow Boat from Shanghai to Texas. Dec. 2006. 256p. Univ. of Wisconsin/Terrace, paper, $22.95 (0-299-21944-5). 910.4.

Hold on to your seat as you travel with cosmopolitan English graduate student Kendall, the sole woman aboard a Chinese ship. Kendall's adventure begins with a flier and a help-wanted ad: "English as a Second Language (ESL) Teacher Needed." Intrigued, she answers the ad and soon finds herself accompanying a cruise from Shanghai to Galveston, Texas, teaching ESL en route ...

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