 First edition | |
| Author | Paul Theroux |
|---|---|
| Genre | Travel |
| Publisher | Putman |
Publication date | 1988 |
| ISBN | 978-0-14-011295-5 |
Riding the Iron Rooster (1988) is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims is to disprove the Chinese maxim, "you can always fool a foreigner". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. [1]
Theroux travelled through China for a year, ending his journey in Tibet after visiting Mongolia, Xinjiang and Manchuria. He was accompanied by a bureaucrat who acted as a chaperone. [2]
