Mind Sprocket

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Robert H. Abel

Robert Abel has published three novels and three collections of stories and numerous articles. His writing awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. In 1987, 1994, and 1997 he taught at universities in China. His web site is www.roberthabel.com.

Articles by Robert H. Abel:

An Incident in Hohhot

Published in Accounts & Glimpses on October 9, 2007

Everything – every banister, every public bench, every bus and even the flags and Buddhas in the monasteries – has a layer of grime upon it. I had thought Beijing was a dirty place. But for me Hohhot set a new standard. Even frozen, the river that wanders through its heart seemed untouchable to me.