Riding the Iron Rooster (1988) is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s.

One of his aims is to disprove the Chinese maxim, "you can always fool a foreigner".

It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

[1] Theroux travelled through China for a year, ending his journey in Tibet after visiting Mongolia, Xinjiang and Manchuria.

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