Hessler's works
China Daily | Updated: 2013-07-09 06:14
River Town records Peter Hessler's two years on the Yangtze River, in the remote town of Fuling. He was the first American to arrive in more than half a century. Teaching English at the local college, he wrote about the aspiring students as well as a radically different and developing society.
Oracle Bones combs through his experiences in China from 1999 to 2002 with a handful of ordinary Chinese. The author follows their choices and changes in the quickly morphing society, intersecting his narration with maps and information about oracle-bone inscriptions or ancient Chinese writing.
Country Driving
is the final book in Hessler's China trilogy, where he looks at the country's farms and factories. He records how the country is building roads and factory towns, and investigates the status of migrant workers as well as concerns about urban development.
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