11 rows · In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing /5(). · Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing 4/5(17). Oracle Bones A Journey Between Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (China trilogy #2) by. Peter Hessler. · Rating details · 6, ratings · reviews From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.
These tales of life in contemporary China deftly shed light on the country's paradoxes. It's no book on how to make a buck in China, but Peter Hessler's. Oracle Bones (HarperCollins, May , $ "Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures that give life to the moment." —The New York Times Book Review From Peter Hessler, the New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town, comes Country Driving, the third and final book in his award-winning China bltadwin.ruy Driving addresses the human side of the economic revolution in China, focusing on. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is.
Oracle Bones A Journey Between Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (China trilogy #2) by. Peter Hessler. · Rating details · 6, ratings · reviews From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the tension between narrative and story, past and present, China and the West. Whereas his first book, River Town, focused on geography and sense of place, Oracle Bones is concerned with history and time. The book follows a small cast of characters through the years from to , a period when China. Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler in the Other Travel Geography category for sale in Cape Town (ID).
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