The Soloist by Mark Salzman5/10/2023 ![]() ![]() Salzman received several literary awards for Iron & Silk. His experiences in China are recounted in his first book, Iron & Silk: A young American encounters swordsmen, bureaucrats and other citizens of contemporary China, published in 1986. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in 1982 and spent the next two years in Changsha, Hunan, teaching English at Hunan Medical College and studying martial arts with Pan Qingfu, a Chinese martial arts teacher and kung fu movie actor. ![]() He studied Chinese Language and Literature at Yale University. Salzman grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the oldest child of a piano teacher mother and a social worker father. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir Iron & Silk, which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s. ![]() Mark Joseph Salzman (born Decemin Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American writer. ![]()
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