Of all the well-known Western authors who have written about China, Peter Hessler has to be the most eloquent and endearing. His third and final novel on China, Country Driving： A Journey Through China from Farm to F...Of all the well-known Western authors who have written about China, Peter Hessler has to be the most eloquent and endearing. His third and final novel on China, Country Driving： A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, is intended to reveal the great changes that the country＇s rapid urbanization, growing automobile industry and frenzied thoroughfare construction has had on the lives of the people with whom he has met and cultivated relationships.展开更多
The first thing I learned while living abroad is that if you＇re lost you have to ask for directions. The last thing ! learned is that it＇s possible to ship a hundred and forty-three boxes from Beijing across the VaC...The first thing I learned while living abroad is that if you＇re lost you have to ask for directions. The last thing ! learned is that it＇s possible to ship a hundred and forty-three boxes from Beijing across the VaCltlC ocean without a final destination. I＇ve never been good at planning ahead, and this quality became worse after years in China, where everybody seems to live in the moment.展开更多
文摘Of all the well-known Western authors who have written about China, Peter Hessler has to be the most eloquent and endearing. His third and final novel on China, Country Driving： A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, is intended to reveal the great changes that the country＇s rapid urbanization, growing automobile industry and frenzied thoroughfare construction has had on the lives of the people with whom he has met and cultivated relationships.
文摘The first thing I learned while living abroad is that if you＇re lost you have to ask for directions. The last thing ! learned is that it＇s possible to ship a hundred and forty-three boxes from Beijing across the VaCltlC ocean without a final destination. I＇ve never been good at planning ahead, and this quality became worse after years in China, where everybody seems to live in the moment.
