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Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China Tapa blanda - 2007
de Peter Hessler
The acclaimed author of "River Town" offers a rare portrait of 21st-century China. Hessler tells the story of this modern-day country and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.
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From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time -- the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country -- is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation.Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand.Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
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- Título Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China
- Autor Peter Hessler
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición Reprint
- Páginas 528
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Harper Perennial, New York
- Fecha de publicación 2007-05-08
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Illustrated, Index, Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060826598 / 0060826592
- Peso 0.9 libras (0.41 kg)
- Dimensiones 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.5 pulgadas (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.81 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects China - Civilization, China - Description and travel
- Dewey Decimal Code 951
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