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Oracle Bones
by Peter Hessler
From the acclaimed author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze comes a rare portrait, both
intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. Fascinating
interwoven tales of everyday people that the author meets and knows in China with stories of China's
archeological history
Oracle Bones refers to ancient bones inscribed with the earliest writing in China which were used to
predict the future.
Biography
A Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Peter Hessler studied English literature at Princeton and
Oxford before heading to China as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1996 -- and his experience teaching
English there has so far inspired two critically acclaimed books.
by Peter Hessler
From the acclaimed author of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze comes a rare portrait, both
intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world. Fascinating
interwoven tales of everyday people that the author meets and knows in China with stories of China's
archeological history
Oracle Bones refers to ancient bones inscribed with the earliest writing in China which were used to
predict the future.
Biography
A Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Peter Hessler studied English literature at Princeton and
Oxford before heading to China as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1996 -- and his experience teaching
English there has so far inspired two critically acclaimed books.
