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River Town
Two Years on the Yangtze
Peter Hessler
for my parents
Contents
Maps
Author’s Note
Part I
One:

Downstream
The City
Two:

Shakespeare with Chinese Characteristics
Raise the Flag Mountain
Three:

Running
The White Crane Ridge
Four:

The Dam
The Wu River
Five:

Opium Wars
White Flat Mountain
Six:

Storm
Part II
Seven:

Summer
The Priest
Eight:

Chinese Life
The Restaurant Owner
Nine:

Money
The Teacher
Ten:

Chinese New Year
The Land
Eleven:

Spring Again
The River
Twelve:

Upstream
P.S. Insights, Interviews & More…
Acknowledgments
Praise
Credits
Copyright
About the Publisher
Maps
AUTHOR’S NOTE
THE CHAPTERS OF THIS BOOK

describe my life in Fuling, while the interspersed sketches focus on the local landscape, its history, and the people. All of these sketches were written while I still lived there, and I’ve used this structure to give the reader some sense of the two roles that a foreigner plays in a town like Fuling. Sometimes I was an observer, while at other moments I was very much involved in local life, and this combination of distance and intimacy was part of what shaped my two years in Sichuan.
A few of the characters’ names and other identifying features have been changed in cases where the subject matter is sensitive. I’ve relied on the standard pinyin
romanization for most of the Chinese names and words, with exceptions for a few well-known names such as Yangtze and Hong Kong.
This isn’t a book about China. It’s about a certain small part of China at a certain brief period in time, and my hope has been to capture the richness of both the moment and the place. The place I know well—the murky Yangtze, the green well-worked mountains—but the moment is more difficult to define. Fuling was situated midriver both geographically and historically, and sometimes it was hard to see where things came from and where they were going. But the town and its people were always full of life and energy and hope, which in the end is my subject. Rather than an inquiry into a source or a destination, this is an account of what it was like to spend two years in the heart of the great river’s current.
PART I
CHAPTER ONE
Downstream
I CAME TO FULING

on the slow boat downstream from Chongqing. It was a warm, clear night at the end of August in 1996—stars flickering above the Yangtze River, their light too faint to reflect off the black water. A car from the college drove us along the narrow streets that twisted up from the docks. The ............

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