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    <title>River town</title>
    <subTitle>two years on the Yangtze</subTitle>
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    <publisher>HarperCollins Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued>
    <edition>First Harper perennial edition published 2006</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>402 pages : maps ; 21 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Records the author's experiences as a Peace Corps English teacher in the small Chinese city of Fuling, during which time he witnessed such events as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainland, and the construction of the Three Gorges Dam.</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Peter Hessler.</note>
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    <geographic>Fuling (Sichuan Sheng)</geographic>
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    <geographic>Fuling (Sichuan Sheng, China)</geographic>
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