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Peter Hessler
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June 14, 1969
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How Chinese Students Experience America
COVID, guns, anti-Asian violence, and diplomatic relations have complicated the ambitions of the some three hundred thousand college students who come to the U.S. each year.
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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2001
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28 editions
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Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
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2009
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41 editions
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
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2006
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33 editions
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The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
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2019
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19 editions
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Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West
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2013
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12 editions
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink
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2007
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Other Rivers: A Chinese Education
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2024
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4 editions
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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2013
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Chinese Sentiment
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2011
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AKHENATEN, EGYPT'S FIRST REVOLUTIONARY [KING TUT'S FATHER]
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Written during the Qing dynasty, this book is a quirky, evocative, and surprisingly intimate glimpse of the mind of a highly literate gentleman of...
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“The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal.”
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“I realized that as a thinking person his advantage lay precisely in his lack of formal education. Nobody told him what to think, and thus he was free to think clearly.”
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
“People with good memories are liable to be crushed by the weight of their suffering. Only those with bad memories, the fittest to survive, can live on. - Lu Xun”
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
― River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze
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