Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.

• River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.)
• Country Driving: A Chinese Road Trip
• Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
• China in Ten Words
• Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
• Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
• The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers
• The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun (Penguin Classics)
• Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory