River Town
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Average rating4.5
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Ratings4
Average rating4.5
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.
Series
3 primary booksChina trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2001 with contributions by Peter Hessler.
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I was first recommended this book by a white guy from Kentucky when I lived in Beijing, so naturally I ignored his recommendation. I got re-interested in it after reading Peter Hessler's writings in the New Yorker, and when my cousin gave it to me as a gift. It's a very good book; clear, quick-moving, and frequently hilarious. It continually surprised me how much Hessler's analyses of Chinese culture overlapped with my own, and maybe that's why I liked it so much. I was constantly amused by how much the Sichuanese peasants reminded me of my parents and how weird they are. Recommended if you want to know about China and what it means to be Chinese.
