River Town

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River Town

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author: Peter Hessler
publishing house: Harper Perennial
publication date: 2006 -4
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binding: Paperback
price: USD 15.99
number of pages: 399

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Two Years on the Yangtze

Peter Hessler   

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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.

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