Jiangcheng
by K
About This Novel
Peter Heisler (Chinese name He Wei) is the prelude to his documentary trilogy about China! "River City" has been best-selling in the United States for more than ten years and is the first choice book for Americans to understand China. The book won the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Award and was recommended by many foreign media such as The New York Times, The Economist, and The New Yorker. It ranked first in the Asian book list of Time Magazine. Peter Heisler was a Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker and a contributor to National Geographic and other magazines. With the publication of "River City", "Searching for China" and "Strange Stones", he became the best-selling author in the West writing about China. At the end of August 1996, on a warm and clear night, I set off from Chongqing and took a slow boat down the river to Fuling. Fuling has no railways and has always been a poor area in Sichuan Province. The roads are very bad. You have to take a boat to go everywhere, but most likely you won't go anywhere. For the next two years, this city became my home. Here, I am sometimes a bystander, and sometimes I am immersed in local life. This combination of close and distant observation constitutes part of my two-year stay in Sichuan. This is not a book about China; it only deals with a small part of China during a specific period of time. From a geographical and historical point of view, Fuling is located in the middle reaches of the river, so it is sometimes difficult for people to see clearly where it comes from and where it is going. Between 1996 and 1998, I learned to love Fuling. It feels so good to be back on the Yangtze River again, even if its old rapids only remain in my memory.
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Official(22)Scraped 4d ago
Things on the road
An American writer with a good grasp of China, the author's depth of understanding of China is unparalleled. It is informative and interesting to both foreigners and us.
China in the eyes of foreigners
I finished reading my first book in one go! I can't wait to read He Wei's Finding China!
I finished reading my first book in one go! I can't wait to read He Wei's Finding China
Very powerful work.
Not bad, you can take a look
Small stories from big times are always more touching
I think it's pretty good.
real power
The biggest feeling given by this book is that it is true, and this is also its most attractive feature. The scene where it happened was real and amiable. It was a small inland riverside town in China in the 1990s. The people and events were commonplace for Chinese people. However, as a foreigner who is a volunteer, he has traveled thousands of miles to come here and has a different growth background, with obvious socio-political and cultural differences. He must have completely different views and judgments on things that are familiar to Chinese people. Although his perspective on dealing with people and things is unique, his behavior is believable and touching. Secondly, the words are simple and straightforward, describing the real scenes of civilian life.
Awesome. . .
Best-selling in the United States for more than ten years
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Community(0)
Official(22)Scraped 4d ago
Things on the road
An American writer with a good grasp of China, the author's depth of understanding of China is unparalleled. It is informative and interesting to both foreigners and us.
China in the eyes of foreigners
I finished reading my first book in one go! I can't wait to read He Wei's Finding China!
I finished reading my first book in one go! I can't wait to read He Wei's Finding China
Very powerful work.
Not bad, you can take a look
Small stories from big times are always more touching
I think it's pretty good.
real power
The biggest feeling given by this book is that it is true, and this is also its most attractive feature. The scene where it happened was real and amiable. It was a small inland riverside town in China in the 1990s. The people and events were commonplace for Chinese people. However, as a foreigner who is a volunteer, he has traveled thousands of miles to come here and has a different growth background, with obvious socio-political and cultural differences. He must have completely different views and judgments on things that are familiar to Chinese people. Although his perspective on dealing with people and things is unique, his behavior is believable and touching. Secondly, the words are simple and straightforward, describing the real scenes of civilian life.
Awesome. . .
Best-selling in the United States for more than ten years
