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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze is a 2001 memoir by Peter Hessler. It documents his Peace Corps teaching assignment at Fuling Teachers College in Fuling , Sichuan / Chongqing [ a ] , which started in 1996 and lasted for two years.
Peter Hessler — River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (nonfiction) 2000. Michael Ondaatje — Anil's Ghost (fiction) Michael David Kwan — Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood in Wartime China (nonfiction) 1999. Cheng Ch’ing-wen — Three-Legged Horse (fiction)
Hessler joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2000 and served as foreign correspondent until 2007. [12] Hessler has written four books on China. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001) is a Kiriyama Prize-winning book about his experiences in two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in China.
Hessler, Peter (2001). River town : two years on the Yangtze. New York: HarperCollins. [1] — (2006). Oracle bones : a journey between China's past and present. New York: HarperCollins. — (2010). Country driving : a journey through China from farm to factory. New York: Harper. — (2013). Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West. New ...
River Town can refer to: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, 2001 book by Peter Hessler; River Town, book written by Bonnie Geisert and illustrated by Arthur Geisert; See also. River Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota
Fuling District (simplified Chinese: 涪陵区; traditional Chinese: 涪陵區; pinyin: Fúlíng Qū) is a district in central Chongqing, China.As the second largest city in Chongqing, the area is known for zha cai, a hot pickled mustard tuber, [1] as well as serving as the location of former U.S. Peace Corps teacher Peter Hessler's best-selling memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze.
In 2022, Big Sky River starring Emmanuelle Vaugier and Kavan Smith premiered on Hallmark Mystery and was a hit for the network. The movie, based on author Linda Lael Miller's novel of the same ...
a town on a river; Peter Hessler's book from 2001 about the town of Fuling on the Yangtze in Sichuan, China; Rivertown, a neighbourhood on the Detroit International Riverfront in Detroit, Michigan, USA; Rivertown, Georgia, an unincorporated community; Rivertown, a themed area at Dreamworld amusement park in Gold Coast, Australia