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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze  4.09 avg rating — 2,488 ratings
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1999
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11 editions
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present 4.03 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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2006
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8 editions
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory 4.14 avg rating — 1,029 ratings
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2009
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Shissō Chūgoku: Kawariyuku Toshi To Nōson by Peter Hessler, 栗原 泉  4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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2011
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China Obscura by Mark Leong, Yang Lian , Peter Hessler 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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2004
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February 2010,
Peter Hessler
"Written during the Qing dynasty, this book is a quirky, evocative, and surprisingly intimate glimpse of the mind of a highly literate gentleman of the early 1800s...Shen Fu has such a love of life—his first chapter is entitled 'The Joys of the Wedding Chamber.'" ...More
"Written during the Qing dynasty, this book is a quirky, evocative, and surprisingly intimate glimpse of the mind of a highly literate gentleman of the early 1800s...Shen Fu has such a love of life—his first chapter is entitled 'The Joys of the Wedding Chamber.'" ...More
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“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”
― Peter Hessler
― Peter Hessler
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