River town : two years on the Yangtze / Peter Hessler.
Title:
River town : two years on the Yangtze / Peter Hessler.
Author:
Hessler, Peter, 1969-
ISBN:
9780060195441
9780060953744
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Edition:
First edition
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, ©2001.
Physical Description:
402 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
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.
Abstract:
Records the author's experiences as a Peace Corps English teacher in the small Chinese city of Fuling, during which time he witnessed such events as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
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