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Oracle Bones : A Journey Between China's Past and Present by Peter Hessler...
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- ISBN
- 9780060826581
- EAN
- 9780060826581
- Book Title
- Oracle Bones : a Journey between China's Past and Present
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Genre
- Travel, History, Political Science
- Topic
- Asia / China, World / Asian
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 24.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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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 Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time--the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country--is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation. Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand. Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060826584
ISBN-13
9780060826581
eBay Product ID (ePID)
47848254
Product Key Features
Book Title
Oracle Bones : a Journey between China's Past and Present
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Asia / China, World / Asian
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Travel, History, Political Science
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
24.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds712.H458 2006
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Engaging. . . . Acutely observed, moving, frequently funny and a perspicacious X-ray of China's zeitgeist., An extraordinary, genre-defying book. . . . Beautifully constructed. . . . Hessler's reportage is vivid., Insightful. . . . Hessler is a wry and witty writer who manages to bring humor even to tense situations., "A remarkable travelogue documenting aspects of a country still little understood." -- Kirkus (starred review) "Everyone in the Western world should read this book." -- Publishers Weekly, (starred review) "Hessler has written a fascinating and frequently moving account of life in modern China." -- Booklist "A brilliant observer with a novelist's ear for character and dialogue, Hessler is both fascinating and funny." -- Entertainment Weekly "Wonderful. . . . Intimate. . . . The book reads like a really good novel." -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "Insightful. . . . Hessler is a wry and witty writer who manages to bring humor even to tense situations." -- Christian Science Monitor "Engaging. . . . Acutely observed, moving, frequently funny and a perspicacious X-ray of China's zeitgeist." -- South China Morning Post "An extraordinary, genre-defying book. . . . Beautifully constructed. . . . Hessler's reportage is vivid." -- Nigel Richardson, The Daily Telegraph, A brilliant observer with a novelist's ear for character and dialogue, Hessler is both fascinating and funny.
Copyright Date
2006
Lccn
2005-052607
Dewey Decimal
951
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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