Name: Country Driving
ISBN: 9780061804106

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Why This Clicks

Change on the Ground

A road-minded portrait of modern China, attentive to the human stakes of economic change.

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Rural traditions meeting roads and factory towns
A human-scale view of China’s economic transformation

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A thoughtful portrait of a vast, shifting landscape
Economic change seen through its human side

Book Details

Authors: Peter Hessler
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: February 8, 2011
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: China Travel · Central Asia Travel
Reading lane: China Travel

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Economic History
Corporate Histories
Chinese History
Southeast Asian History

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Historical Geography
Social History
Asian Politics
Automotive History

About This Book

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 ro...

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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.