but I couldn't locate that post any more.
Anyway, this book was mentioned in that post with that kind of comment of a regret: regretting the ending of the reading of that book after finishing the reading of it.
这可看出这本书较特别了。我也很喜欢这本书,从一个外国人眼里看中国,描写现代中国写的如此详细,让土生土长的中国人都有去Fuling(涪陵)观光的念头。
River Town
by Peter Hessler
http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm/book_number/730/river-town
你读过这本书吧。