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You will love this book if you enjoy adventure with a smile, odd travelling companions, inventive gadgets, and a spoiled hero who learns what a day of life is worth.
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What would you do if you were rich, healthy, thirty-one years old and bored with everything? Kin-Fo, a young man of Shanghai, plans to marry. Then his money seems to vanish, and he arranges his own death. He wants one strong feeling before the end, and he gets far more than he bargained for.
Tribulations of a Chinaman in China is a comic adventure novel by Jules Verne, from 1879. Verne sends a bored hero across China with a cowardly servant, a philosopher with a secret past, and two American insurance agents who think as one man. You get a chase, a sly joke about money, and a bright picture of nineteenth century China.
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- 1A rich man's boredom invites a strange toastFree
- 2A rebel guest becomes the household philosopher
- 3A late letter wipes out a fortune
- 4He insures his own death against every risk
- 5He buys a coffin and asks Wang to kill him
- 6Two inseparable agents watch a very odd client
- 7A comic fame sends Kin-Fo across China
- 8A chase, a bridge and an interrupted wedding
- 9A ship of coffins, a storm and a shark
- 10What the story says about happiness and work
- 11How Verne tells the tale with jokes and gadgets
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A rich man's boredom invites a strange toast
The story opens on a flower boat on the Pearl River at Canton, where six men finish a feast of one hundred and fifty dishes. The host is Kin-Fo, young, healthy, cultured and very rich. His friends argue over whether life is good, and he says Pah.
Only Wang, his bespectacled philosopher, has an answer. Happiness is like health, he says, and a man who has never been without it cannot enjoy it. Then Kin-Fo announces that in two weeks he will marry, to break up his monotony. Wang warns that being bored together is worse than being bored alone.
Wang drinks to some protective spirit who will make his friend happy through the ordeal of unhappiness. That toast is the seed of the whole book. Comfort without struggle leaves a person empty.
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- LengthAbout 55,500 words
- Reading timeAbout 3 h 55 min
Questions about Le tribolazioni di un cinese in Cina
What is Tribulations of a Chinaman in China about?
It follows Kin-Fo, a wealthy and bored young man in Shanghai who believes he is ruined, insures his life and asks a friend to kill him. When his luck changes, he must flee across China to stay alive.
Who are Craig and Fry in Tribulations of a Chinaman in China?
They are two American cousins who work for the Centenary life insurance company. They look and think so alike that they finish each other's sentences, and they follow Kin-Fo everywhere to protect the money the company stands to lose.
Who is Wang and why does he matter?
Wang is Kin-Fo's philosopher, teacher and constant companion. He is also a former Taiping rebel whom Kin-Fo's father once sheltered. Kin-Fo asks him for one terrible favour, and that promise drives the plot.
When was Tribulations of a Chinaman in China written and is it a true story?
Jules Verne published it in 1879. It is a comic novel, not a true story, though it uses real places, rivers, cities, the Great Wall and the history of the Taiping rebellion as its setting.
Is Tribulations of a Chinaman in China easy to read?
Its short chapters, lively jokes and fast chase make it easy to follow. Verne explains customs and places as he goes, and the running gags with Soun and the two agents keep the mood playful.
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Verne, Jules. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/tribulations-of-a-chinaman-in-china.
Verne, J. (2026). Tribulations of a Chinaman in China. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tribulations-of-a-chinaman-in-china (Original work published 1879)
Verne, Jules. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/tribulations-of-a-chinaman-in-china.
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