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The River at the Center of the World
Author
Simon Winchester
Country
England
Language
English
Genre
Travel literature
Publisher
Henry Holt
Publication date
1996
Media type
Print
Pages
410 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN
0-8050-3888-4
OCLC
34411014
Dewey Decimal
915.1/20459 20
LC Class
DS793.Y3 W56 1996
The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time is a book by Simon Winchester. It details his travels up the Yangtze river in China and was first published in 1996.[1]
Viewing an ancient Chinese painting scroll drawn by Wang Hui gives the author the inspiration on how to structure his book. He starts his journey in Shanghai, at the Yangtze river's delta, and makes his way upriver to the headwaters. At the same time, his narration also makes a journey back in time, writing about contemporary times in Shanghai and Nanjing, and writing about events that date back increasingly farther in cities upriver.
He makes the travel with a companion — a Chinese woman who is referred to in the book only as Lily to protect her identity.[2] The chapter titled A New Great Wall is devoted to the Three Gorges Dam, then under construction and fully operational as of 2012.
^"River at the Center of the World". Publishers Weekly. 2 October 1996. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
^"THE RIVER AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD: A JOURNEY UP THE YANGTZE AND BACK IN CHINESE TIME". Kirkus. 1 November 1996. Retrieved 23 December 2002.
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