A journey of understanding Share American journalist Erik Nilsson promotes his new book,
Closer to Heaven: A Global Nomad s Journey Through China s Poverty Alleviation, at an event in Shanghai on July 16. [Photo provided to China Daily]
Book explores author s experience in the country and how it has lifted so many out of the clutches of poverty, Xing Yi reports in Shanghai.
Erik Nilsson, an American journalist who works at China Daily and a recipient of the Chinese Government Friendship Award, held a talk to promote his new book in Shanghai on July 16.
Titled
Closer to Heaven: A Global Nomad s Journey Through China s Poverty Alleviation, the book was published in Chinese and English by China Intercontinental Press in January.
An adventure book, chronicling China s poverty alleviation By Erik Nilsson | China Daily | Updated: 2021-01-26 10:30 Share Erik Nilsson. [Photo/CICC]
On May 12, 2008, our planet ripped itself apart, and a portal to hell opened on Earth in Sichuan province.
I don t just mean hell as a metaphor. The quake zone literally assumed a vast geography inhabited by tens of millions of people, wailing and gnashing their teeth, and nearly 90,000 dead or missing.
I start my new book, Closer to Heaven: A Global Nomad s Journey Through China s Poverty Alleviation, there because I was supposed to be there. But because of a scheduling change, I wasn t.