![]() In the first of the book's three parts, Hessler recounts two technically illegal driving expeditions along the Great Wall ("forgiveness comes easier than permission" in China, he notes). In Country Driving, his latest travelogue, he writes, "Everything depends on perspective," a platitude that he reinvigorates by viewing China's modernization from unexpected angles. But longtime New Yorker writer Peter Hessler has always balanced his observations of China's peculiarities with a sense that the Western world is pretty strange, too. Chinese news of the weird-like the recent story of the Shenzhen policeman who drank himself to death at a banquet and was honored for falling in the line of duty-makes US headlines. ![]() On top of everything else, we now import our human-interest stories from China. ![]()
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