From the bestselling author of Oracle Bones and River Town comes the final book in his award-winning trilogy, on the human side of the economic revolution in China. In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker , acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. Country Driving begins with Hessler's 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital's auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center. Peter Hessler, whom The Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world.

一位67岁的中国画家，在塞纳河畔、翡冷翠街头，支起画架专心作画。
《沿着塞纳河到翡冷翠》收入的两辑文章《沿着塞纳河》《翡冷翠情怀》，是作者根据短期旅居国外写生作画的经历、见闻而创作的艺术游记散文集，记述了作者在巴黎及意大利各地亲历伟大艺术遗存的感悟、惶惑以及坚守勤拙的自励。作者敏锐、细致、富于幽默感，将旅途中遇到的奇情趣事、与旅居地人们的有趣交往，描述得活泼生动、引人入胜。
那个夏秋冬，黄永玉以绘画和文字完成了他丰盈的艺术之旅。