Good Reading on China

I just finished reading a book, "Oracle Bones" by Peter Hassler, who worked as a freelance journalist for Boston Globe, New Yorker from 1999. Previously a English teacher and a peace Corp volunteer in Sichuan, Peter wrote his first book, River Town-Two Years on Yangtze, about his teaching in China.

Aimed to introduce China to American audience from its past to present, Oracle Bones did a good job in putting together such significant events and sensitive issues such as Beijing bid for Olympics, Urygur minority's fleeing from the country, Falungun, etc, mass demolishing historic areas in Beijing, etc, it also used the author's quest for prominent academics of Oracle bones-Chen Mengjia, as a thread to put together China's old glories and its new realities.

It is certainly helpful to know nowadays China better by reading Oracle Bones.