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River town : two years on the Yangtze / Peter Hessler.

By: Hessler, Peter, 1969-.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2006Description: 402, 16 p. : maps ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780060855024 (pbk.); 0060855029 (pbk.); 0060195444.Subject(s): Hessler, Peter, 1969- -- Travel -- China -- Fuling (Sichuan Sheng) | Fuling (Sichuan Sheng, China) -- Description and travelDDC classification: 915.138
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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Includes P.S. insights, interviews & more (16 p.).

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.