Peter Hessler: Other Rivers | Buch

Cover: 9780593655337 | Other Rivers | A Chinese Education | Peter Hessler | Buch | Englisch

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"More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China's economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan province to instruct students from the next generation. At the same time, Hessler and his wife enrolled their twin daughters in a local state-run elementary school, where they were the only Westerners. Over the years, Hessler had kept in close contact with many of the people he had taught in the 1990s. By reconnecting with these individuals-members of China's "Reform generation," now in their forties-while teaching current undergrads, Hessler gained a unique perspective on China's incredible transformation. In Peter Hessler's hands, China's education system is the perfect vehicle for examining the country's past, present, and future, and what we can learn from it, for good and ill"--

Über den Autor

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, Cairo correspondent from 2011 to 2016, and Chengdu correspondent from 2019 to 2021. He is the author of The Buried; River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize; Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Country Driving; and Strange Stones. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur fellow in 2011.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Kunst
Produktart:	Reiseführer
Region:	Asien
Rubrik:	Reisen
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780593655337
ISBN-10:	0593655338
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Hessler, Peter
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Maße:	161 x 238 x 41 mm
Von/Mit:	Peter Hessler
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.07.2024
Gewicht:	0,726 kg

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