Travelling home by train one day, Rod MacKenzie closed his eyes and suddenly had a vision of red lanterns and himself teachig Chinese children English. ‘Go to China,’ something told him – and just like that, he did. Cracking China is an account of Rod and his wife Marion’s adventures in the land of chopsticks and Chinglish. Written in the witty style typical of Rod’s popular blogs, this memoir takes a candid look at China through the eyes of a Westerner, and is by turns amusing and thought provoking