Ten non-fictions that offer insights into the world
Updated: 2015-10-10 14:04
By Ruan Fan(chinadaily.com.cn)
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory by Peter Hessler. [Photo/Agencies] |
Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Author: Peter Hessler
The book written by Peter Hessler, The New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town, is the third and final book in his award-winning China trilogy. After travelling 1,000 miles across northern China, Hessler investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Then he spent years in a mountain region north of Beijing, in a small southeastern city called Lishui, and deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a once traditional rural nation. It is a book that addresses the human side of the economic revolution in China, explaining China's shift from rural to urban, from farming to business.
What they say:
"Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures that give life to the moment."
-- The New York Times Book Review
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