Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler

Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

China trilogy #2

Peter Hessler

512 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history travel informative reflective slow-paced

Description

From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the...

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