River town : two years on the Yangtze
Title:
River town : two years on the Yangtze
Author:
Hessler, Peter, 1969-
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Edition:
First Harper Perennial edition.
Publication Information:
New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
©2001
Physical Description:
402 pages, 16 pages : maps ; 21 cm
General Note:
"P.S. insights, interviews & more"--Cover.
Language:
English
Contents:
PART I: Downstream --The city -- Shakespeare with Chinese characteristics -- Raise the Flag Mountain -- Running -- The White Crane Ridge --The dam -- The Wu River -- Opium Wars -- White Flat Mountain -- Storm -- PART II: Summer -- The priest -- Chinese life -- The restaurant owner -- Money -- The teacher -- Chinese New Year -- The land -- Spring again -- The river -- Upstream.
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ISBN:
9780060855024
Format :
Book
