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** The opening line "I was a foreign teacher..." is moved to the second paragraph.
** "The Wedding", which appeared as an unrelated Lost Laowai post, is included in the ebook.
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** The part where the narrator goes to meet his half-sister.
** The opening line "I was a foreign teacher..." is moved to the second paragraph.
** "The Wedding", which appeared as an unrelated Lost Laowai post, is included in the ebook.
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''The Seven Year Laowai'' is available on [[https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Year-Laowai-Travis-Lee-ebook/dp/B00DRU5FD2 Amazon]] and [[https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366679 Smashwords].
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''The Seven Year Laowai'' is available on [[https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Year-Laowai-Travis-Lee-ebook/dp/B00DRU5FD2 Amazon]] and [[https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366679 Smashwords].
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''The Seven Year Laowai'' is a 2013 novelette by Travis Lee, a fictionalized memoir of a middle-aged American who spent seven years teaching ESL in Wuhan, China.
Originally published in 2010 on the China expat blog Lost Laowai, ''The Seven Year Laowai'' was re-edited and released as an ebook in 2013. An alternate version was also published on The Anthill, which collects short pieces from China writers.
''The Seven Year Laowai'' is available on [[https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Year-Laowai-Travis-Lee-ebook/dp/B00DRU5FD2 Amazon]] and [[https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366679 Smashwords].
You can read the original Lost Laowai version [[https://www.lostlaowai.com/tag/7-year-laowai/ here]]. Check out The Anthill Edit [[http://theanthill.org/down-and-out-wuhan here]].
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!!'The Seven Year Laowai' contains examples of:
* {{The Alcoholic}}: The narrator, by his own admission. Others don't fare much better.
* {{Big Bad}}: Keith is the closest thing ''The Seven Year Laowai'' has to an antagonist.
** You could make the case that
* {{Deleted Scene}}: The 2013 ebook removes several sections present in the Lost Laowai version, including...
** The part where the narrator goes to meet his half-sister.
** The opening line "I was a foreign teacher..." is moved to the second paragraph.
** "The Wedding", which appeared as an unrelated Lost Laowai post, is included in the ebook.
* {{Dying Alone}}: [[spoiler: Keith is described as unexpectedly dying of pneumonia, alone in a cold hospital, one of many easily-replaced foreigners who think they're important in China]]
* {{No Name Given}}: No one refers to the narrator by name and he never reveals it.
Originally published in 2010 on the China expat blog Lost Laowai, ''The Seven Year Laowai'' was re-edited and released as an ebook in 2013. An alternate version was also published on The Anthill, which collects short pieces from China writers.
''The Seven Year Laowai'' is available on [[https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Year-Laowai-Travis-Lee-ebook/dp/B00DRU5FD2 Amazon]] and [[https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/366679 Smashwords].
You can read the original Lost Laowai version [[https://www.lostlaowai.com/tag/7-year-laowai/ here]]. Check out The Anthill Edit [[http://theanthill.org/down-and-out-wuhan here]].
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!!'The Seven Year Laowai' contains examples of:
* {{The Alcoholic}}: The narrator, by his own admission. Others don't fare much better.
* {{Big Bad}}: Keith is the closest thing ''The Seven Year Laowai'' has to an antagonist.
** You could make the case that
* {{Deleted Scene}}: The 2013 ebook removes several sections present in the Lost Laowai version, including...
** The part where the narrator goes to meet his half-sister.
** The opening line "I was a foreign teacher..." is moved to the second paragraph.
** "The Wedding", which appeared as an unrelated Lost Laowai post, is included in the ebook.
* {{Dying Alone}}: [[spoiler: Keith is described as unexpectedly dying of pneumonia, alone in a cold hospital, one of many easily-replaced foreigners who think they're important in China]]
* {{No Name Given}}: No one refers to the narrator by name and he never reveals it.
