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Country Driving
A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory
Peter Hessler
for Leslie
Contents
Book I
The Wall
I
THERE ARE STILL EMPTY ROADS IN CHINA, ESPECIALLY on the…
II
AFTER THAT FIRST LONG TRIP I NEVER WORRIED ABOUT where…
Book II
The Village
I
THE YEAR THAT I RECEIVED MY DRIVER’S LICENSE, I BEGAN…
II
WINTER IS THE QUIETEST SEASON IN SANCHA. THERE ARE no…
III
WEI ZIQI’S BUSINESS LED HIM TO JOIN THE PARTY, AND…
Book III
The Factory
I
IN THE CITY OF WENZHOU THEY RENTED OUT CARS WITH…
II
AFTER THE FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL CAME TO WORK AT the bra…
III
FOR MORE THAN A YEAR I HAD TRAVELED REGULARLY to…
IV
MY CHINESE DRIVER’S LICENSE EXPIRED IN THE SUMMER of 2007.
Acknowledgments
Sources
About the Author
Other Books by Peter Hessler
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
BOOK I
THE WALL
I
THERE ARE STILL EMPTY ROADS IN CHINA, ESPECIALLY
on the western steppes, where the highways to the Himalayas carry little traffic other than dust and wind. Even the boomtowns of the coast have their share of vacant streets. They lead to half-built factory districts and planned apartment complexes; they wind through terraced fields that are destined to become the suburbs of tomorrow. They connect villages whose residents traveled by foot less than a generation ago. It was the thought of all that fleeting open space—the new roads to old places, the landscapes on the verge of change—that finally inspired me to get a Chinese driver’s license.
By the summer of 2001, when I applied to the Beijing Public Safety Traffic Bureau, I had lived in China for five years. During that time I had traveled passively by bus and plane, boat and train; I dozed across provinces and slept through towns. But sitting behind the wheel woke me up. That was happening everywhere: in Beijing alone, almost a thousand new drivers registered on average each day, the pioneers of a nationwide auto boom. Most of them came from the growing middle class, for whom a car represented mobility, prosperity, modernity. For me, it meant adventure. The questions of the written driver’s exam suggested a world where nothing could be taken for granted:
223. If you come to a road that has been flooded, you should
a) accelerate, so the motor doesn’t flood.
b) stop, examine the water to make sure it’s shallow, and drive across slowly.
c) find a pedestrian and make him cross ahead of you.
282. When approaching a railroad crossing, you should
a) accelerate and cross.
b) accelerate only if you see a train approaching.
c) slow dow ............

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