The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781554684816 (1554684811)
Publish date: May 15th 2009
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 419
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Science,
Culture,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
China
As a travel book, The River at the Center of the World is always engaging. The central conceit of the history part of the book, though, doesn't work as the author contended it would. His initial idea is to start at the mouth of the Yangtze and recent Chinese history, and to work backwards in time as...
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