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#2490 of 8,085 books · #1057 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction (1957).

While in China on business in the 1920s, a young American engineer becomes involved in the lives of people who live on a junk on the Yangtze River.

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Publisher
Vintage
ISBN-13
9780586049365
Genre
Topics
Cultural encounterJourney along the Yangtze RiverTradition versus modernity

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