Teaching English in Taiwan Author:David Barton It's a surreal narrative containing the kind of tales people tell in bars, sentences flung like arrows at a target... like "the toxic rhapsody of Taiwan," and a sequence of high aspiring forays penned in various states of inspiration and self-confessed quasi-madness... There are dissertations on the colour yellow, then on gold, then on Taiwan's ... more »'pollution for profit system.' Taiwan is seen by turns as absurd, over-blown, over-polluted and over-rich, too profitable to leave and its women far too attractive to ignore.... the heart of the matter is that this is a work of anarchic imagination, as were the very similar creations of Rableais... this book then is a wild, deliberately foul-mouthed assault on almost everything and in Barton's own outlandish practice a paean of hatred aimed at 'the baleful influence of the TOEFL corporation.' Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times« less