River town
Subtitle: two years on the Yangtze
By: Peter Hessler
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Description: In the heart of China's Sichuan province, tucked away amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this vast and ever-evolving country.
Notes: Winner of the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Non-Fiction for 2001

Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize for Non-Fiction, 2001
Table of contents: title: PART I: Downstream; title: The city; title: Shakespeare with Chinese characteristics; title: Raise the Flag Mountain; title: Running; title: The White Crane Ridge; title: The dam; title: The Wu River; title: Opium Wars; title: White Flat Mountain; title: Storm; title: PART II: Summer; title: The priest; title: Chinese life; title: The restaurant owner; title: Money; title: The teacher; title: Chinese New Year; title: The land; title: Spring again; title: The river; title: Upstream.