Oracle Bones
By Peter Hessler (Harper Perennial)
If you want to understand what’s happening in China – the single greatest urban migration and most massive urban development in history – this book is for you. In this rich first-person account about a handful of young educated Chinese who leave their rural China homeland and colonize the dynamic east coast Guangzhou region, the author paints a fascinating portrait of the new China. Urban design and architecture, old and new, underlies much of the narrative.
