Simplified Chinese edition of River town : two years on the Yangtze. Peter Hessler worked as a teacher during his stint as a Peace Corp volunteer in 1996 in a small town Fuling on China's Yangtze River. As a foreigner happening upon a historically remarkable year of 1997 - Deng Xiaoping's death and repatriation of Hong Kong - Hessler observed the political transformation of China.
