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Books with title Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

  • Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

    Peter Hessler

    Paperback (Harper Perennial, Feb. 8, 2011)
    One of The Economist's Best Books of the YearFrom 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.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.
  • Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

    Peter Hessler

    Paperback (Canongate Books, April 1, 2011)
    In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years he travelled the country, tracking how the automobile and the improved transport system were transforming China. Here, Hessler writes of everyday people who have reshaped the country.
  • Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip

    Peter Hessler

    Paperback (Canongate Books Ltd, April 21, 2011)
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