PROLOGUE 1
BOOK ONE: WANDERER
1. The First Step
13
2. Lost in Transplantation
21
3. Sleeping Beauty
31
4. Kungfu World
43
5. Lights, Camera, Action
55
6. A Coke and a Smile
63
7. Defection
69
BOOK TWO: NOVICE
1. Eating Bitter
75
2. The Show Must Go On
89
3. Chinese Medicine
99
4. Roommates
109
5. Shaolin's Champion
123
6. The Sacred and the Profane
135
BOOK THREE: INITIATE
1. Kickboxing
151
2. Media Matters
163
3. Iron Forearm Boy
169
4. Taiwan Tunes
179
5. Playing Hands
185
6. Crazy Negotiations
193
7. Taking a Beating
205
BOOK FOUR: APPRENTICE
1. Happy Endings
211
2. Iron Crotch Kungfu
217
3. Getting Schooled
233
4. The Sixth Race
237
5. Dirty Jokes and Beer
247
6. Pride and Penance
255
7. Another American
265
BOOK FIVE: DISCIPLE
1. Challenge Match
275
2. Mistress Management
287
3. Tournament
301
4. No Problems
325
5. The Western Spear
335
6. Endings
339
EPILOGUE: Shaolin Reunion 345
AUTHOR'S NOTE 363
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 365