Imagine explaining to chinese farmers pushing oxen through wet rice terraces that in California rice is planted from airplanes. Or coming across an old man scrubbing syringes and needles in a basin for reuse in the local hospital. Or watching fireworks soaring over the beautiful gorges of the Yangtze on Chinese New Year and realizing the town will soon be submerged by the biggest dam in the world.
Such were the mind-stretching experiences of Peter Hessler, an American Peace Corps volunteer from Missouri who arrived in 1996, at age 27, in a small city called Fuling on the banks of...
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