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From the bestselling author of Oracle Bone fragments and River Town comes the ultimate reserve in his award-winning trilogy, on the individuals part of the monetary revolution in China.

In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese license. For the next seven years, he journeyed the country, tracking how the automobile and improved streets were changing China. Hessler creates movingly of the common people—farmers, migrant personnel, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the country during one of the very most critical intervals in its modern record. Country Travelling commences with Hessler's 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following a Great Wall membrane, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being discontinued, as teenagers migrate to careers in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a little farming town in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes significantly following the local street is paved and the capital's vehicle boom brings new tourism. Finally, he converts his attention to metropolitan China, researching development over a period of more than 2 yrs in Lishui, a little southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a significant industrial middle. Peter Hessler, whom The Wall membrane Street Journal telephone calls "one of the Traditional western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the huge, shifting landscape of an traditionally rural land that, having once built wall surfaces against foreigners, is now building streets and factory cities that turn to the outside world.