![]() ![]() ![]() He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Country Driving begins with Hessler's 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. Hessler writes movingly of the average people-farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs-who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. Country Driving by Peter Hessler From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. ![]()
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