Book
Oracle bones : a journey through time in China
Edition
1st Harper Perennial ed.
Publication Information
New York : HarperCollins, 2007,c2006.
Physical Description
xi, 491 p., 16p ill., map ; 21 cm.
Summary
An American journalist living in Beijing offers an odyssey through twenty-first-century China as seen through the eyes of a handful of ordinary people.
Notes
Includes "P.S. About the author, About the book, and Read on"
Contents
- I: Artifact A: The underground city
- The middleman
- Artifact B: The written world
- The voice of America
- The broken bridge
- Artifact C: The wall
- The overnight city
- II: Starch
- Hollywood
- Artifact D: The voice of the turtle
- At night you're not lonely
- Immigration
- The courtyard
- Artifact E: The bronze head
- Anniversary
- Sichuanese
- III: Artifact F: The book
- Asylum
- Artifact G: The uncracked bone
- The games
- Sand
- Artifact H: The word
- Translation
- Flags
- Straight to video
- Artifact I: The horse
- Wonton western
- Election
- Chinatown
- Artifact J: the criticism
- Artifact K: The lost alphabets
- Encapsulate prime
- Artifact L: The misprinted character
- Patton's tomb
- Artifact Z: The sold words
- Tea.