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Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip by Peter Hessler

Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip Peter Hessler ebook
Format: pdf
Page: 438
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 9780061804106

€�The New Yorker” Beijing correspondent Peter Hessler discusses his book about everyday life in China, “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip.” Presented by Harvard Book Store. No matter how many times you go to a country like England or Japan, it's still a little shock to get off a plane and see people driving on the left side of the road. Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip. Beyondbrics, from the Financial Times, brings news and comment from more than 40 emerging economies, headed by China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia and South Africa. Chronically unstable and corrupt — and now bracing for more chaos from Afghanistan — Tajikistan's president is staking his country's future on the biggest dam in the world. With the country's booming motor industry, road tripping has become a cool new activity -- some already say a "lifestyle" -- for many Chinese. But there's one thing that Chinese RV pioneers are constantly seeking: decent RV campgrounds. The cross-country trip is the supreme example of the journey as the destination. General Motors' Cadillac brand recently attracted attention by promoting the idea of driving China's "Route 66," the 3,900-kilometer Highway 109 (109国道) that links Beijing and Lhasa. For a great description of all this read “Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip” by Peter Hessler. He drives quite a distance around China in a Cherokee. Conover's book describes six driving trips, each having an underlying theme. The road, built by the Soviet Union as a means of solidifying control of this strategic but remote territory, is now an artery for trade with China. I had an odd experience when I initially started in again on Country Driving last week. One by one, those foreign book reviewers fell into this trap. Me on the other hand, I'd like a new Cherokee for $12k. Now, he said, too many heavy Chinese trucks drive it and maintenance is lax. The book is about China and includes driving, but it is not really about a road trip. In the spirit of Kerouac and Steinbeck, the celebrated travel writer fulfills a childhood fantasy: to drive across his native land. When you first pick up Country Driving there's the danger that you might mistake it for a book about driving culture or a “road trip” book. By Peter Hessler is a book by a magazine writer who lived in China for several years.