Expatriate translator Alice Mannegan spends her nights in Beijing's smoky bars, seeking fleeting encounters with Chinese men to blot out the shame of her racist father back in Texas. But when she signs on to an archaeological expedition searching for the missing bones of Peking Man in China's remote Northwest deserts, her world cracks open. As the group follows the trail of the Jesuit philosopher/paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin to close in on one of archaeology's greatest mysteries, Alice finds herself increasingly drawn to a Chinese professor who is shackled by his own painful memories. Love in all its forms--human, sexual, divine, between a nation and its history, a man and his past, a father and his daughter--drives the story to its breathtaking finish.
(amazon.com)

Last of my souvenirs from Palo Alto 2011.

Two things were very interesting:
1) Racism of Chinese people against white people. Would be interesting to know if this is true.
2) Body language and social behaviour of Chinese people seems to be completely different from that of American people.
The rest of it was quite entertaining.

Released in the foyer on the table with flyers. Have fun reading! :-)