The River at the Centre of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese TimePenguin UK, 1998年2月26日 - 448 頁 Simon Winchester undertakes a journey from the mouth of the Yangste River to its source. This is the story of the river, it's cities and their people, built around the author's own journey to discover something of the essence of China and her people, the Yangtse being her soul and centre |
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Map of China In Gratitude | |
Authors Note | |
Prelude | |
The Plan | |
The Mouth Open Wide | |
The City Without a Past | |
The First Reach | |
City of Victims | |
A New Great Wall | |
The Shipmasters Guide | |
The Foothills | |
The Garden Country of Joseph Rock | |
The River Wild | |
Harder Than the Road to Heaven | |
Headwaters | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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