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...Will more Big China Books appear 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...
...haven't been to the places Hessler describes in Country Driving or met the people whose stories he tells with his characteristic blend of empathy, insight and self-deprecating humor. Yet I never doubt for a second that he's writing about the richly hued and socially variegated country that I know, as opposed to one of the imaginary lands conjured up in Big China Books...
...never fast enough for the armchair aid workers sipping their lattes...
Nina Easton must have never been on unemployment, or she would know better than to take such a cavalier attitude toward Americans suffering from the loss of their livelihood [Jan. 25]. To be forced to rely on unemployment benefits, in my experience, in no way contributes to "warping incentives to look for work." A job search takes earnest effort and several months' time, even in better times than these; many of the "lower-paying, less desirable jobs" she cites are passed up because they will not support a household. Extending jobless benefits would not "be reinforcing that misery." No money...
Raising grass-fed animals is very land-intensive, and massive deforestation is not a viable solution to the environmental devastation caused by factory farms and feedlots. Population growth has necessitated that we eat differently; "élite meat" will never be a solution for the masses...