Tag: Shaolin
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Memoir Interview with Matthew Polly Author of “American Shaolin”
It’s the old saying: “tragedy plus time equals comedy.” It was ten years later. And it was hard to feel sorry for myself when so many good things came out of the sacrifice. For one, I was a stronger and more interesting person. For two, I won the Rhodes scholarship almost solely on the strength…
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Princeton Student transfers to the School of Hard Knocks or Learning Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple
Recently, I saw a memoir “American Shaolin” by Matthew Polly, a young man who dropped out of Princeton to study Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple in China. I was stunned to learn the place was real and even more astonished that it still existed. At first I resisted reading the book, afraid the real…
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