The Lettuce Diaries. How A Frenchman Found Gold Growing Vegetables In China

by Xavier Naville

A$37 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Hong Kong. Earnshaw Books. 2021. Stock ID #214855 xviii + 362pp, Paperback. New. A snobbish French executive arrives in Shanghai with his expensive shoes and ties, expecting a short career-boosting posting before returning to Paris. Instead, he ends up deep in China's manure-soaked fields, buying and selling vegetables, all because he has convinced himself that he can singlehandedly drag Chinese agriculture into the

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