River Town

River TownBy: Peter Hessler 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. 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. Hessler observes firsthand how major events such as the death

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