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Apocalyptic Planet

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Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

by Peter Hessler

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ISBN13: 9780060953744
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In the heart of China's Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country, Fuling is shifting gears and heading down a new path, one of change and vitality, tension and reform, disruption and growth.

Its position at the crossroads came into sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the ways of Fuling — and about the complex process of understanding that takes place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that, much like China itself, is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.

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Peter Hessler graduated with degrees in English from Princeton and Oxford and has written for several publications, including The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and The Atlantic Monthly. A native of Columbia, Missouri, he currently lives in Beijing.

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: teacher and reader, June 14, 2011 (view all comments by teacher and reader)
This book is fascinating. The author spent two years in China teaching for the Peace Corps at the age of 26. He and his friend, Adam, were the first two Westerners to live in the province for fifty years. As a result, they were stared at, glared at and followed where ever they went. Mr. Hessler captures the culture, the emotional and political climate, and his experience vividly. When I finished the book, the images and ideas stayed with me, and because of the detailed and excellent writing, I fe