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. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. 'A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. From the acclaimed author of 'River Town' comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of 21st-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. Hessler helps us discover where the great influential cultures of East and West intersect, but also how the conjunction of past and present creates today's China - and how people create meaning out of chaotic world events. All of them migrants, emigrants or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand.

The narrative tracks his story along with that of Polat, a trader and member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the West in search of political freedom and a new life William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family in a remote village Emily, a migrant factory worker in a city without a past and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions - the earliest known writing in East Asia - and a man whose mysterious story has been lost since his suicide years ago, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The author himself is a Westerner, a journalist living in Beijing. Oracle Bones tells its engaging and compelling story through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. The Dust-wrapper (£20) has NOT been price clipped. Free from any mark's, book-plate's, inscription's, under-lining, etc. A Very Good copy in like-wise Very Good dust-wrapper.

Oracle bones by peter hessler