Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory 9780061804090, 9780061969430, 0061804096

In this penetrating narrative account, Hessler investigates China's lurch into modernity as he survives the advent

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Country Driving: A Journey Through China From Farm to Factory
9780061804090, 9780061969430, 0061804096

EDITORIAL REVIEW: From the bestselling author of *Oracle Bones* and *River Town* comes the final book in his award-winn

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Country Driving is Peter Hessler's account of his travels through China over the past decade - from the fortified t

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Few landscapes are as striking as that of the Hebrides, the hundreds of small islands that speckle the waters off Scotla

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Shares letters to and from women who worked in textile factories before the Civil War and have letters which have surviv

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Going out -- The city -- To die poor is a sin -- The talent market -- Factory girls -- The stele with no name -- Square

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The story of China's rights movement—a struggle for basic human rights and democracy that, despite harsh repression

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To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to

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To say that history's greatest economic experiment--Soviet communism--was also its greatest economic failure is to

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In the 1990s a small midwestern American town approved the construction of a massive pork complex, where almost 7 millio

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A picturesque, reflective journey along the route of the ancient Milk River, from southern Alberta into northern Montana

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