River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze is a 2001 memoir by Peter Hessler. It documents his Peace Corps teaching assignment at Fuling Teachers College in...

Peace Corps teacher Peter Hessler's best-selling memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. The district spans an area of 2,941.46 square kilometres (1...

River Town can refer to: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, 2001 book by Peter Hessler River Town (1999 book), book written by Bonnie Geisert and illustrated...

Yangtze or Yangzi (English: /ˈjæŋtsi/ or /ˈjɑːŋtsi/ simplified Chinese: 长江; traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; lit. 'long river') is the longest...

of Protecting Mother River”. Fuling Teachers College is the setting of Peter Hessler's memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, completed and published...

written four books on China. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001) is a Kiriyama Prize-winning book about his experiences in two years as a Peace Corps...

between the Yellow River and Yangtze River, the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins in China. Historically draining eastwards directly into the Yellow...

1957. In the West, it's best known for the description given by Peter Hessler in his book River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001). The church was...

Adaptation of Peter Hessler's 'River Town'". Variety. Retrieved March 15, 2016. Lu Chuan at IMDb Lu Chuan at AllMovie Lu Chuan at the Chinese Movie Database...

and sequential gorges along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River path, in the hinterland of the People's Republic of China. With a subtropical monsoon...

rivers before moving northwards to other Southeastern and Central Chinese provinces, causing significantly raised water levels in the Yangtze River and...

Peter Hessler, American journalist. Hessler, Peter (2001). River town : two years on the Yangtze. New York: HarperCollins. — (2006). Oracle bones : a journey...

the 1954 Yangtze River Floods, in 1956, Mao wrote "Swimming", a poem about his fascination with a dam on the Yangtze River. In 1958, after the Hundred...

for two thousand years on the Yangtze, but until the completion of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge in 1957, there were no permanent bridges along the main...

who founded the Red Army, later known as the People's Liberation Army. Hessler, Peter (25 April 2006). River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze. HarperCollins...

stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers where the Han flows into the Yangtze. Hankou is connected by bridges to its triplet sister towns Hanyang (between...

River is connected by an ancient Lingqu canal with the Xiang River, which flows north into the Yangtze; this in the past made the Li and Gui Rivers part...

boom of the past two decades, bridge-building has proceeded at a rapid pace on a vast scale. Prior to the completion of the Wuhan Yangtze River Bridge...

Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-55591-7 Hessler, Peter (2001). River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, p.254. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-085502-9 Block, Melissa...

— From the Land of Green Ghosts (nonfiction) 2001 Patricia Grace — Dogside Story (fiction) Peter Hessler — River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (nonfiction)...

Nen River, Songhua River and the Pearl River. In the summer of 1998, China experienced severe flooding of the Yangtze River, the Nen River, the Songhua...

and Chu state during the Zhou dynasty. The region evolved into an important port on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the cities of Hanyang,...

parallels the flow of the Yangtze River. In the past, Baiheliang served as an ancient device for measuring water levels of the Yangtze in China, the equivalent...

alluvial island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in East China covering 1,267 square kilometers (489 sq mi) as of 2010. Together with the islands Changxing...

which flows into the Yangtze, thus providing a continuous waterway from the Pearl River Delta to the Yangtze Valley. The Xi River is rich in water conservancy...

runs from the Qiantang River at Hangzhou to the Yangtze River at Zhenjiang; the Inner Canal from the Yangtze at Yangzhou to the Huai River at Huai'an...

Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge, Husutong Yangtze River Bridge Across other rivers than Yangtze River...

2008. Archived from the original on 4 April 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2011. "The Ancient Waterfront Towns in the South of Yangtze River". UNESCO World Heritage...

conducted it in safety to the Yangtze River, and thus to the Chinese coast. On his return to France, he was received with enthusiasm. The preparation of his...

"Three Towns of Wuhan" (武汉三镇). Wuhan lies in the eastern Jianghan Plain, at the confluence of the Yangtze river and its largest tributary, the Han River, and...