- Travel, Peace Corps, Description and travel, Descriptions et voyages
Records the author's experiences as a Peace Corps English teacher in the small Chinese city of Fuling, during which time he witnessed such events as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Peter Hessler
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 402
- Publisher
- Books on Tape, John Murray, iu zhou chu ban wen hua shi ye you xian gong si
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780060855024
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“I CAME TO FULING on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing.”
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