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39 reviews

HarperCollins e-books, 2006

A Personal Tour of China
In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler tells the story of his time in China as a teacher of English and a journalist. The timeline of his tales is from May of 1999 through June of 2002. Along the way, he touches on some of the big events of the period from his Chinese perch--the captured American spy plane, crackdowns on the Falun Gong, the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, the awarding of ...

China Obscura

4 reviews

Chronicle Books, 2004

China from the ground up
First, full disclosure: I have known Mark Leong for 10 years and worked with him as a colleague in China. So this may account for my bias, but I believe that his photos of modern-day China are among the best taken during the post-Tiananmen era. During my decade as a correspondent in China, I always wanted to work with Mark because I thought his gritty, in-your-face pictures captured a side of ...

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

1 review
Peter Hessler

Books on Tape, 2002

A Great Story Flawlessly Narrated
This book is a page-turner, and narrator Scott Blick accomplishes what I appreciate most in an audiobook narrator: he becomes invisible. All my attention was on the story, not on the reading. No distracting quirks in his pronunciations or reading style. Bravo! And what a delightful, vivid, heart-warming story by an American who tells it as he sees it, including his perceptions of his own mistakes ...

Oracle Bones

24 reviews
Peter Hessler

HarperLargePrint, 2006

Cannot Recommend This Book Highly Enough
This is an excellent book that should be read by anyone curious about present-day China and the economic juggernaut that they have become. The author looks at their situation not from the macro side (the big picture - China's economy is thus and thus, growing from this to that in X amount of time, etc.) but rather he looks at it from the micro side: through the stories of everyday folks who are ...

River Town

163 reviews
Peter Hessler

John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2002

The Adventure of an American in China
Peter Hessler is today a well known American correspondent and free lance journalist living in Beijing. He has written two books and many articles on modern China and can be defined ad an "Old China hand", an honorary title given to Chinese speaking foreigners who truly understand the country, which even in this era of globalization knows how to keep many of its secrets. River Town was ...

Power Plant Construction Management: A Survival Guide
Peter G. Hessler

PennWell Corp., 2005

With the focus on return on investment and new technologies, the power industry today is much different than it was years ago. A unique set of management skills is necessary to supervise construction or retrofitting of a power generation plant, given today?s bottom-line emphasis on environment, fuel efficiency, up-to-date technical features, and the industry?s loss of experienced craftsmen and supervisory personnel. This book explains the power ...