The River at the Center of the World

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The River at the Center of the World
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Author Simon Winchester
LanguageEnglish
Genre Travel literature
Publisher Henry Holt
Publication date
1996
Publication placeEngland
Media typePrint
Pages410 pp (first edition, hardcover)
ISBN 0-8050-3888-4
OCLC 34411014
915.1/20459 20
LC Class DS793.Y3 W56 1996

The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time is a book by Simon Winchester. It details his travels up the Yangtze river in China and was first published in 1996. [1] [2] [3]

Viewing an ancient Chinese painting scroll drawn by Wang Hui gives the author the inspiration on how to structure his book. He starts his journey in Shanghai, at the Yangtze river's delta, and makes his way upriver to the headwaters. At the same time, his narration also makes a journey back in time, writing about contemporary times in Shanghai and Nanjing, and writing about events that date back increasingly farther in cities upriver.

He makes the travel with a companion a Chinese woman who is referred to in the book only as Lily to protect her identity. [4] The chapter titled A New Great Wall is devoted to the Three Gorges Dam, then under construction and fully operational as of 2012.

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