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1	''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.
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3	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.
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5	''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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7	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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11	!!'The Seven Year Laowai' contains examples of:
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13	* {{The Alcoholic}}: The narrator, by his own admission. Others don't fare much better.
14	* {{Big Bad}}: Keith is the closest thing ''The Seven Year Laowai'' has to an antagonist.
15	** And Keith's actions don't directly affect the narrator, only other teachers Keith has harassed and then fired.
16	* {{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]]

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