Choose a specific topic/theme in Peter Hessler, Country Driving to analyze in the context of the reform era. As at least a small part of your analysis you should discuss change and continuity in China within the context of Chinese history (try to have some brief reference to traditional China, most context will be comparing the Maoist period with the reform era). In what ways are the topics from Hessler reform era topics? One historian’s statement of differences between the Maoist and Reform Eras in China. Baum, Richard. “Introduction,” Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping, Princeton University Press (1994).