River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (926 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B003KQMFRC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 377 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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One student says of Hamlet, "I don't admire him and I dislike him. Hessler's writing is lovely. In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Hessler returned to the U.S. I think he is too sensitive and conservative and selfish." Hessler marvels, You couldn't have said something like that at Oxford. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Hessler tells of his experience with the citizens of Fuling, the political and historical climate, and the feel of the city itself. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, cultural, and personal implications of being thrust into a such radically differe
Fearless Fed said Best book you will ever read about daily life in China. I am not aware of any other writer who has written anything even remotely as informative and interesting about the realities of daily living for Chinese citizens.This particular book covers two years as a literature teacher at a small Chinese college. His students had previous instuction in English and understood it with varying degrees of comprehension. During his tour Hessler became fluent in Chinese and spent all of his tour with his students or getting to know the. Gilbert C. Pogany said A real Chine through the eyes of a Peace Corp volunteer.. This is not a documentary book of the usual kind. This is all about a Peace Corp volunteer's experience in China. As such I found it captivating and very revealing. There are accounts in this book that I found nowhere else. The intimacy that the author achieves through his contacts with the students that he teaches is profound. Because of this closeness to people and students there are insights that are uniquely Chinese as viewed through the eyes of a foreigner. It is. Excellent recollections of a Peace Corps volunteer in China This book covers the author's (Peter Hessler) experiences during the two years he spent as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English & American Literature in Fuling, China (population: about 200,000) from 1996 to 1998. So it's not a book about touring China; it's a book about LIVING in China as a foreigner. The author learned to speak and read Chinese well enough to visit with the town's inhabitants (and some of the people outside of the city as well). The author clear
Poignant, thoughtful and utterly compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a place caught mid-river in time, much like China itself - a country seeking to understand both what it was and what it will one day become.. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. Hessler observes firsthand how major events such as the d