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Overview
One of The Economist's Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution in China.
Peter Hessler, whom the Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780061804106 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
Publication date: | 02/08/2011 |
Series: | P. S. Series |
Pages: | 438 |
Sales rank: | 316,929 |
Product dimensions: | 7.82(w) x 5.28(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Hometown:
Beijing, ChinaDate of Birth:
June 14, 1968Place of Birth:
Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaEducation:
Princeton University, Creative Writing and English, 1992; Oxford University, English Language and Literature, 1994What People are Saying About This
“Exceptionally moving. . . . Hilarious. . . . An absolutely terrific book, at once highly entertaining and deeply instructive. . . . Country Driving is a wonderful book about China that also happens to be a terrific book about the human race.
“Delightful. . . . Epic. . . . The reporting in Country Driving is impressive in its scope. . . . Hessler delivers eloquent disquisitions on everything from how to buy a used car in China to the history of the Mongol conquest.”