ISBN10: 0060826584, ISBN13: 9780060826581, [publisher: Harper] Hardcover [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: HarperCollins Pub Date: 5/1/2006 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 512 First edition.
[Towson, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 0060826584, ISBN13: 9780060826581, [publisher: Harper] Hardcover 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%u2014the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country%u2014is 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 ...

ISBN10: 0060826584, ISBN13: 9780060826581, [publisher: Harper] Hardcover 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%u2014the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country%u2014is 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 ...

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ISBN10: 0060826584, ISBN13: 9780060826581, [publisher: Harper April 2006] Hardcover
[St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]

HarperCollins 5/1/2006 not first Hardcover Good NOTE* Uncorrected proof. Book in good condition. Small dog-eared crease in top edge.

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Harper, Date: 2006-04-25. Hardcover. Used:Good. 2006. Harper ISBN 0060826584 9780060826581 [US]

ISBN10: 0060826584, ISBN13: 9780060826581, [publisher: HarperCollins] Hardcover 512 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]