The entire Pohai Sea and Chiungchow Straits are China’s inland seas.]

“I just stocked up the fridge with pop and there's candy bars in the cabinet, if you need a munchy.”

Below, long rows of peas put forth their white-winged flowers, tempting the small butterflies to flutter round their inanimate likenesses;...

It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail—that graduate school of survival. Here you learn how to use toothpaste as glue, fashion a shiv out of a spoon and build intricate communication networks.