River Town Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Peter Hessler
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
81

River Town by Peter Hessler Book Summary

A New York Times Notable Book

Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize

In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society.

Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.

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Book Name River Town
Genre Asia
Published
Language English
E-Book Size 1.5 MB

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A Fascinating book. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler is a terrific non-fiction book. The author tells his two years of successful teaching experience in a small town. His knowledge of modern Chinese history including the local history of Sichuan Province is amazing. It’s incredible that Hessler learned Chinese and used it with his colleagues and students as well as local residents, especially peasants, to gain first-hand experience and understand the culture and society as well. He makes literature alive for the Chinese students from peasants’ families through their performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and the discussion of Kate Chopin’s “Désirée's Baby.” From the incident to the students’ performance of Don Quixote, the reader can picture Mao’s style of political control even over two decades later after his death. Peter Hessler is definitely an invaluable China Hand.

River Town. Hessler is a keen observer of the modern China. His masterful stories tell so much about the conflicts, contradications and ironies that we see only glimpses of in the media. An engrossing read.

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Summary of River Town by Peter Hessler

The River Town book written by Peter Hessler was published on 21 September 2010, Tuesday in the Asia category. A total of 81 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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