Country Driving
A Chinese Road Trip
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · February 8, 2011
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A road-minded portrait of modern China, attentive to the human stakes of economic change.
- Themes
- China's economic transformation, Rural-to-industrial change, Modern China
- Genres
- China Travel, Chinese History, Travel Writing
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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.
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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.
Change on the Ground
A road-minded portrait of modern China, attentive to the human stakes of economic change.
Come here for
- Rural traditions meeting roads and factory towns
- A human-scale view of China’s economic transformation
Expect
- A thoughtful portrait of a vast, shifting landscape
- Economic change seen through its human side
Where it sits
| China Travel | 81% |
|---|---|
| Chinese History | 49% |
| Travel Writing | 43% |
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Publisher categories
- Economic History
- Corporate Histories
- Chinese History
- Southeast Asian History
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- Historical Geography
- Social History
- Asian Politics
- Automotive History
- Authors
- Peter Hessler
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- February 8, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- China's economic transformation · Rural-to-industrial change · Modern China
- Reading lane
- Economic History