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Title River town [electronic resource eBook] : two years on the Yangtze / Peter Hessler.


NOTE Electronic reproduction. New York HarperCollins 2010 Available via World Wide Web.
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.
Summary In the heart of China's Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country, Fuling is shifting gears and heading down a new path, one of change and vitality, tension and reform, disruption and growth. Its position at the crossroads came into sharp focus when [the author] arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. [The author] taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the ways of Fuling - and about the complex process of understanding that takes place when one is immersed in a radically different society.
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Subject Hessler, Peter, 1969- -- Travel -- China -- Fuling (Sichuan Sheng)
Fuling (Sichuan Sheng, China) -- Description and travel.
Genre Electronic books.
Other corporate author OverDrive, Inc.
ISBN 9780062028983
STANDARD # FD6042B7-C294-4EAE-B674-16989AFE9A9C OverDrive