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This was the third book of contemporary essays on China that I've read recently, and it is by far my favorite so far. (The other two were Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler and China in Ten Words by Yu Hua.) Fallows journalistic training gives this book an edge and insight that the other two books, which seemed to me to be mired in personal circumstances, lacked.
Each of these essays appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, and while in the past I've been underwhe ...more
Each of these essays appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, and while in the past I've been underwhe ...more
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