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China from the air and China from the ground

In Time magazine, China historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses new writing about China in Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture.  He praises Peter Hessler‘s new book Country Driving, as an example of grounded scholarly reporting.  Hessler’s previous book,  Oracle … Continue reading

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Peter Hessler’s Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake

Yang Weihua/ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Peter Hessler, author of the excellent book Oracle Bones and a former English teacher in Sichuan province in China, writes in the New Yorker about the response to the recent Chinese Earthquake Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake: … Continue reading

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