Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Peter Hessler
An American journalist living in Beijing offers an intriguing odyssey through twenty-first-century China as seen through the eyes of a handful of ordinary people, including Polat, a member of an ethnic minority seeking freedom in the U.S.; Anne, a migrant factory worker; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle bone inscriptions.
Buy this book at AmazonAd- Publisher
- HarpLPLuxe
- Year
- 2006
- ISBN-13
- 9780061121319
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- Modern ChinaChinese culture and identityMigration and social change
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2006)
Other awarded books from Peter Hessler
- The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution
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