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In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the long-time Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years he travelledthe country, tracking how the automobile and the improved transport system were transforming China.Hessler writes movingly of everyday people - farmers, migrant workers and entrepreneurs - who have reshaped the country during one of the most critical periods in its history. Country Driving illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against outsiders, is building the roads and factory towns that will shape the twenty-first century.
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A fascinating portrait of a society tearing off into the future with only the sketchiest of maps. --Publishers Weekly
Hessler's account superbly captures the spirit of a country. --Sunday Times on Hessler's ORACLE BONES
An extraordinary survey of contemporary China . . . really quite unforgettable. --Observer on ORACLE BONES
An extraordinary, genre-defying book . . . Beautifully constructed . . . Hessler's reportage is vivid. --Daily Telegraph on ORACLE BONES
A brilliant tapestry of ancient and modern China.
--Spectator on Hessler's RIVER TOWN
Funny and brilliantly written. I have not read anything quite like it before on China. --Chris Patten
Imaginative and illuminating . . . [Country Driving] gives us a steering wheel-up view of the country's giddying economic and social transformation. --Tim Butcher, author of BLOOD RIVER
A masterly, learned, entertaining, kind and endlessly fascinating panorama of life in 21st-century China.
--Jan Morris
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Hessler's account superbly captures the spirit of a country. --Sunday Times on Hessler's ORACLE BONES
An extraordinary survey of contemporary China . . . really quite unforgettable. --Observer on ORACLE BONES
An extraordinary, genre-defying book . . . Beautifully constructed . . . Hessler's reportage is vivid. --Daily Telegraph on ORACLE BONES
A brilliant tapestry of ancient and modern China.
--Spectator on Hessler's RIVER TOWN
Funny and brilliantly written. I have not read anything quite like it before on China. --Chris Patten
Imaginative and illuminating . . . [Country Driving] gives us a steering wheel-up view of the country's giddying economic and social transformation. --Tim Butcher, author of BLOOD RIVER
A masterly, learned, entertaining, kind and endlessly fascinating panorama of life in 21st-century China.
--Jan Morris
A very accessible, often laugh-out-loud funny, always illuminating trip around one of the most fascinating countries in the world
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 1847674364
- ISBN 13 9781847674364
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages448
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