across the millions of views, and tens of thousands of comments, which veered mostly between despondency at the expensive/dangerous/diminishing nature of American life, and nationalistic gloating of the unstoppable rise of a perfect China, no one stopped to ask a simple question:
…who is this man?
In 15 seconds of Googling, I’d found that Krae not only had a long history in China, he’d self-published a book through Amazon about it. The bio promised: “a hellish nonfictional account of the unconventional life of chaos that Bradley endured and thrived on while teaching English in Shenzhen, China.” It also enticingly dangled he’d seen the “chilling confines of a Chinese jail”.
Disappointingly, the book is “out of print” with no copies for sale anywhere on the internet.
…But I managed to find one.
