River Town

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-09-21

Type: BOOK

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. “This touching memoir of an American dropped into the ...

The Buried

Publisher: Text Publishing

Published: 2019-05-21

Type: BOOK

An intimate account of the Arab Spring, and Egypt’s past and present, seen through the eyes of a wide range of Egyptians: political operators, archaeologists and garbage collectors; women, the queer community and migrants.

Factory Girls

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009-08-04

Type: BOOK

In Factory Girls, Leslie T. Chang, a former correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Beijing, tells the story of these workers primarily through the lives of two young women, whom she follows over the course of three years as they ...

Oracle Bones

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-03-17

Type: BOOK

In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.

Country Driving

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2010-01-21

Type: BOOK

“Hessler has a marvelous sense of the intonations and gestures that give life to the moment.” —The New York Times Book Review From Peter Hessler, the New York Times bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town, comes Country ...

Strange Stones

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2013-05-07

Type: BOOK

Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage—a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural ...

Iep Jaltok

Publisher: University of Arizona Press

Published: 2017-02-14

Type: BOOK

"Iep jāltok is a collection of poetry by a young Marshallese woman highlighting the traumas of her people through colonialism, racism, forced migration, the legacy of nuclear testing by America, and the impending threats of climate change" ...

China's Economy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2020-06-05

Type: BOOK

China's Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know® is a concise introduction to the most astonishing economic and political story of the last three decades. Arthur Kroeber enhances our understanding of China's changes and their implications.

Invisible China

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2020-09-29

Type: BOOK

This book is an urgent and timely call to action that should be read by economists, policymakers, the business community, and general readers alike.

The Shanghai Free Taxi

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2019-06-11

Type: BOOK

In this adventurous, original book, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt describes how he created a free taxi service--offering rides in exchange for illuminating conversation--to go beyond the headlines and get to know a wide range of colorful ...