Jim Ching is a student within:
"'...the educational complex of San Francisco Integrate.'" (p. 179)
There is an:
"'...upcoming Festival of Man.'" (ibid.)
The political set-up is called:
"'...the Solar Commonwealth...'" (p. 180)
A Wodenite, Adzel, from a race of primitive hunters, has come to Earth to learn planetology and has converted to Buddhism.
Jim communicates with his counsellor, Feeman Simon Snyder, and with his girlfriend, Betty Riefenstahl, by holovid. He researches for his Festival of Man project by getting Library Central to screen information about the former San Francisco district of Chinatown where there had been a Lunar New Year festival:
"...with fireworks and a parade." (p. 183)
We barely notice all this background to a story about Jim and Adzel but in fact it conveys a great deal of information about life on Earth in the Solar Commonwealth.
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