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    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...
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    Fuling, Chongqing (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    Yangtze or Yangzi (English: /ˈjæŋtsi/ or /ˈjɑːŋtsi/ simplified Chinese: 长江; traditional Chinese: 長江; pinyin: Cháng Jiāng; lit. 'long river') is the longest...
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    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...
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  • Peter Hessler (category People appearing on C-SPAN)
    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...
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    between the Yellow River and Yangtze River, the two longest rivers and largest drainage basins in China. Historically draining eastwards directly into the Yellow...
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    Fuling Catholic Church (category Infobox mapframe without OSM relation ID on Wikidata)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • rivers before moving northwards to other Southeastern and Central Chinese provinces, causing significantly raised water levels in the Yangtze River and...
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    Three Gorges Dam (redirect from Yangtze Dam)
    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...
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  • Peter Hessler, American journalist. Hessler, Peter (2001). River town : two years on the Yangtze. New York: HarperCollins. — (2006). Oracle bones : a journey...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Shi Dakai (category Military leaders of the Taiping Rebellion)
    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...
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  • 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...
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    Hankou (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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,...
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  • — From the Land of Green Ghosts (nonfiction) 2001 Patricia Grace — Dogside Story (fiction) Peter Hessler — River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (nonfiction)...
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    Baiheliang (category Yangtze River)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Zhenjiang (category Populated places on the Yangtze River)
    city in Jiangsu Province, China. It lies on the southern bank of the Yangtze River near its intersection with the Grand Canal. It is opposite Yangzhou (to...
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  • Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, Wufengshan Yangtze River Bridge, Husutong Yangtze River Bridge Across other rivers than Yangtze River...
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    Zhouzhuang (redirect from Zhouzhuang Town)
    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...
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    Tongling (category Populated places on the Yangtze River)
    China. A river port along the Yangtze River, Tongling borders Wuhu to the east, Chizhou to the southwest and Anqing to the west. As of the 2020 census...
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    ISBN 978-0-9770159-4-8 Chen, Fei (2019). "Rediscovering the Yellow River and the Yangtze River: the Circulation of Discourses on the North–South Dichotomy between Late Qing...
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