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The China TrilogySeries

This series delves into the heart of modern China, focusing on the lives of ordinary people and the shifting landscapes of this captivating nation. Through engaging personal stories and keen observations, it explores the clash between tradition and relentless progress. Readers witness the complexities of social change and the impact of global events on local communities. It offers a profoundly human narrative, revealing China's soul during a period of immense transformation.

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River Town
Oracle Bones

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  1. 1

    River Town

    • 399 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
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    A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.

    River Town
  2. 2

    Oracle Bones

    • 528 pages
    • 19 hours of reading
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    A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. 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 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 undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.

    Oracle Bones
  3. 3

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    • 550 pages
    • 20 hours of reading
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    From the bestselling author of "Oracle Bones" and "River Town" comes the final book in his award-winning China trilogy, reporting on the human side of the economic revolution in China.

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