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Tag Archives: Peter Hessler
China from the air and China from the ground
In Time magazine, China historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom discusses new writing about China in Big China Books: Enough of the Big Picture. He praises Peter Hessler‘s new book Country Driving, as an example of grounded scholarly reporting. Hessler’s previous book, Oracle … Continue reading
Peter Hessler’s Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake
Yang Weihua/ChinaFotoPress/Getty Images Peter Hessler, author of the excellent book Oracle Bones and a former English teacher in Sichuan province in China, writes in the New Yorker about the response to the recent Chinese Earthquake Sichuan Postcard: After the Earthquake: … Continue reading