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From the bestselling writer of Oracle Bones and Water City comes the ultimate book in his award winning trilogy, about the individual aspect of the financial innovation in China.In summer time of 2001, Peter Hessler, the long-time Beijing writer for The Brand New Yorker, obtained his Oriental driver's permit. For the following seven years, he visited the nation, monitoring the way the improved streets and car were changing China. Hessler writes movingly of the typical people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reformed the country during among the most important times in its contemporary history. Nation Operating starts with Hessleris 7,000-mile journey across northern China, following a Great Wall, in the East China Sea for the Tibetan plateau.