Country driving: three journeys across a changing China 9781921656040, 1921656042

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

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English Pages 438 pages ; 24 cm Year 2010

Country driving: three journeys across a changing China
9781921656040, 1921656042

Table of contents :
The wall --
The village --
The factory.

Lisa Dickey traveled across the whole of Russia three times—in 1995, 2005 and 2015—making friends in eleven different ci

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

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

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This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This book is arranged and developed around the theme of “2050

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On cover: The drama of a Chinese "dare-to-die" squad.

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In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver

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The Internet and social media are pervasive and transformative forces in contemporary China. The Internet, Social Media,

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