This is his third book about China (the only one I have read so far).I find his reception into the village, and the newly entrepreneurial family amazing for an urban foreigner. He has the wonderful skill to adapt himself to an entirely different culture from Missouri where he grew up. I'm not sure how many dialects he knows, if any. The second part is a peasant village turning urban and entreprenuerial, and the third is a factory town where peasants are turning into entrepreneurs.The author, a writer for the New Yorker and National Geographic, has lived in China for more than six years, and is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese.
The first part is a road trip around the great wall of China. It lets you be a fly on the wall in contemporary China. I have a hard time defining this book - is it sociology, or cultural anthropology, or contemporary economic history, or just journalism? Whatever it is called, I think it is terrific.
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