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River Town (3)

Peter Hessler / Harper Perennial / 2001-12-24 / 13.95美元

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  For peasants, the threshing platform is the center of home life---this is where grain is threshed, spices are dried, vegetables are cut, grandchildren are raised, visitors are served tea. 至少在重庆...

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  But such collectivism was limited to small groups, to families and close friends and danwei, or work units, and these tight social cirles also acted as boundaries: they were exclusive, and the average...

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  All flags were flown at half-mast, and at ten o'clock, when the service began, there was a three-minute period of nationwide mourning during which factories, boats, warships, cabs, trucks, and trains ...