River Town: Two Years On The Yangtze
by:
Peter Hessler (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060195441 (0060195444)
Publish date: January 23rd 2001
Publisher: Harper
Pages no: 402
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
China
Interesting and well written, but some sections could have been tightened. The author spent two years (1996-1998) as a Peace Corp volunteer in Fuling, China. It is a remote town located in the Yangtze River Valley, in the heartland of the Sichuan province. He taught English, he learned Chinese and t...
Hessler, already a published travel writer in his late 20's, set out for a two-year stint in Sichuan as a college English literature instructor for the Peace Corps. Here he describes his two years and gradual acculturation. Hessler neither vilifies nor romanticizes the people with whom he interacts,...
One of the very good books about China which is based at a time just before the phase of rapid progress. Simply written, humorous at times and very insightful.
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