One of
The Economist
's Best Books of the Year
From the bestselling author of
Oracle Bones
and
River Town
comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy on the human side of the economic revolution in China.
Peter Hessler, whom the
Wall Street Journal
calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.