Oracle Bones by Peter Hessler5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Social scientists, writes New Yorker correspondent and longtime China resident Hessler ( River Town, 2001), describe the 1990s as China’s true Industrial Revolution, a time when more than 100 million Chinese moved from the countryside to booming industrial cities along the southern coast, “the largest peaceful migration in human history.” The experience has been both dislocating and empowering, as China increasingly emerges as a major power economically and a geopolitical force-often squarely against the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() China is a country both ancient and brand-new-and, to judge by this revealing portrait, likely to be increasingly at odds with the U.S. ![]()
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