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...this decade? I think it safe to bet that they will. The desire for confident answers to Big China Questions has never been stronger. Will admirable works of scholarly reporting also keep coming out? I'm even more confident answering this question affirmatively. One such work, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, is being published in February, and it's the best yet from Peter Hessler, whose two earlier books, River Town (2001) and Oracle Bones (2006), were exemplary forays into the genre. Country Driving begins with the author recounting his quixotic efforts to follow...
...meet the right people. It's clear relief has come hand in hand with Haiti's age-old, seemingly death-defying corruption. "Let the white people give out the coupons. The Haitians will just take them and sell them," says Josmen Jean, 25, who also made the journey for her 50 lbs bag of rice...
...Tunisia, Nigeria, Algeria and, most recently, in Mali, where French aid worker Pierre Camatte was snatched from his hotel on Nov. 25, and again in Mauritania, where three Spanish volunteers and an Italian couple were kidnapped on Nov. 29 and Dec. 19, respectively. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
This past weekend we repeated the arduous journey upstate, and though hopes were high, my lodgings remained humble...
...chases, speeding torpedo boats and an officer saving his commander from drowning amid a barrage of gunfire. Now, in an exhibition called "Escape from Hong Kong: The Road to Waichow," the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence, hk.coastaldefence.museum, is displaying maps, medals and other mementos that bring the legendary journey to life. Reading the handwritten logbooks, it's easy to imagine the weary men fording streams with blistered feet, sleeping on piles of straw and taking cover any time a plane flew over, always fearful that Japanese troops might be lurking around the bend. (See 10 things...