River town : two years on the Yangtze

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Title:

Author:

Hessler, Peter, 1969-

ISBN:

9780060855024

Personal Author:

Hessler, Peter, 1969-

Publication Information:

New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2006.

Physical Description:

402 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

General Note:

First Harper Perennial edition published 2006

Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more (cover)

Contents:

PART I: Downstream --The city --Shakespeare with Chinese characteristics -- Raise the Flag Mountain -- Running -- The White Crane Ridge --The dam -- The Wu River -- Opium Wars --White Flat Mountain --Storm -- PART II: Summer -- The priest -- Chinese life --The restaurant owner -- Money -- The teacher -- Chinese New Year -- The land -- Spring again -- The river -- Upstream.

Personal Subject:

Hessler, Peter, 1969--Travel-China-Fuling (Sichuan Sheng)

Subject Term:

Peace Corps.

Geographic Term:

Fuling (Sichuan Sheng, China) -- Description and travel.

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Summary

A New York Times Notable Book

Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize

In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society.

Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.