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 Pe...
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.
Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Prize; Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and, most recently, Country Driving. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for...
Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as the Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Prize; Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and, most recently, Country Driving. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2011. He lives in Cairo.
The ingenuity in the writing was only brutal honesty and a sense of humor. For ten years I’ve been under the shadow of this book and now the cycle is complete, even though the world is upside down. Br...The ingenuity in the writing was only brutal honesty and a sense of humor. For ten years I’ve been under the shadow of this book and now the cycle is complete, even though the world is upside down. Bravo.(展开)
Damn it's been around 20 years since the first edition came out...Even a Chinese like me found the mindsets of people at that time bizarre to some extent. What massive changes have taken place all ove...Damn it's been around 20 years since the first edition came out...Even a Chinese like me found the mindsets of people at that time bizarre to some extent. What massive changes have taken place all over the nation... Yet some problems, or say the national ethos, remain unchanged, such as the pragmatism, the sole focus of life on earning money, etc. (展开)
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9 有用 kelsiii 2020-11-11 22:06:22
Empathy starts from the willingness to know.
4 有用 Tapachtli 2022-03-24 23:28:32
The ingenuity in the writing was only brutal honesty and a sense of humor. For ten years I’ve been under the shadow of this book and now the cycle is complete, even though the world is upside down. Br... The ingenuity in the writing was only brutal honesty and a sense of humor. For ten years I’ve been under the shadow of this book and now the cycle is complete, even though the world is upside down. Bravo. (展开)
2 有用 云涧深 2021-11-24 22:51:18
之前标记的居然无了……
1 有用 谢谢所有的鱼 2022-03-20 21:31:53
花了快一个月才读完，像经历一段漫长的旅程，回到现实发现其实很多东西到现在也没变的。
3 有用 momo 2018-01-24 20:39:50
Damn it's been around 20 years since the first edition came out...Even a Chinese like me found the mindsets of people at that time bizarre to some extent. What massive changes have taken place all ove... Damn it's been around 20 years since the first edition came out...Even a Chinese like me found the mindsets of people at that time bizarre to some extent. What massive changes have taken place all over the nation... Yet some problems, or say the national ethos, remain unchanged, such as the pragmatism, the sole focus of life on earning money, etc. (展开)