Before this year, he wrote four (4) books about China:
• River town; Two years on the Yangtze. New York: HarperCollins, 2001. 江城 in this review
• Oracle bones; A journey between China's past and present. New York: HarperCollins, 2006. 甲骨文
• Country driving; A journey through China from farm to factory. New York: Harper, 2010.
• Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West. New York: Harper, 2013.
王丹, 中國到底有多開放？評何偉的《奇石》. 王丹書架, June 8, 2016 https://vocus.cc/article/21457
("在他的《奇石：從城市到荒野的另類紀實》一書中，有一篇叫做〈中國巴比松畫派〉。我們知道，法國的巴比松畫派（École de Barbizon）屬於浪漫主義文藝潮流的產物，畫家們在楓丹白露的森林邊緣作畫，內容大多是鄉村風館，優美動人。中國浙江的麗水市要發展出口經濟，就把心思動到了油畫上──他們招聘畫家，專門仿照西方油畫風格，大量製造畫作，然後送往其他國家的觀光購物商店、餐館和旅館，被當地領導稱為「麗水巴比松」計劃。這聽起來多少有些諷刺，因為據說歐洲的一位進口商，每月要從麗水購買以前幅中國人畫的義大利城市，而這些畫家，沒有一個去過義大利。 但是，這也是中國的對外開放的真實寫照。中國的一個地方城市，融入了國際藝術品市場")
(i) The author deliberately uses traditional Chinese only.
(i) Strange Stones. Schlow Centre Region Library, undated https://search.schlowlibrary.org/Record/363624/TOC
(Table of Contents: Chinese Barbizon)
(iii) Schlow Centre Region Library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlow_Centre_Region_Library
(1957- )
is a local library in Borough (equivalent to a city in that state) of State College, Centre County, Pennsylvania. State College is a college town hosting Pennsylvania State University.
(iv) list of French artistic movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_French_artistic_movements
(section 7 Barbizon School (French: École de Barbizon)
(A) French-English dictionary:
* école (noun feminine, ultimately from Ancient Greek σχολή [romanization:] skholḗ): "school" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A9cole
(B) I do not know how to pronounce French, but this is how to pronounce this village in ENGLISH. See Barbizon https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Barbizon
(c) "在您的《长眠者：埃及的革命考古学》当中，你说 '在埃及和中国之间，我更喜欢后者，因为后者是具有体系的威权主义，而埃及是缺乏体系的威权主义.' "
(i) the book:
The Buried; An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. New York: Penguin. 2019.
(ii) Penguin Books Limited (1935- ; based in London) in 2013 formed Penguin Random House with Random House (originally American, but then a subsidiary of German media conglomerate Bertelsmann).