Finally, he explores China's frantic industrialization, embodied by the managers and workers at a fly-by-night bra-parts factory in a Special Economic Zone. He probes the transformation of village life through the saga of a family of peasants trying to remake themselves as middle-class entrepreneurs. In an epic road trip following the Great Wall across northern China, he surveys dilapidated frontier outposts from the imperial past while barely surviving the advent of the nation's uniquely terrifying car culture. Hessler investigates the country's lurch into modernity through three engrossing narratives. ) again proves himself America's keenest observer of the New China. In his latest feat of penetrating social reportage, New Yorker
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