Acclaimed writer Peter Hessler is selling his car in Chengdu, after leaving China in 2021 when his teaching contract was abruptly terminated. Online, the sale of his Honda CRV has spurred a series of reflections on Hessler’s...
China’s Ministry of State Security is standardizing rewards for turning in spies. Would-be informants can earn up to $15,000 for a tip that has major implications for China’s national security or, in lieu of that, a “spiritual...
Peter Hessler was The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and the author of...
On the Sinica podcast, Ian Johnson joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser to discuss...
At the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson discusses author Peter Hessler’s enormous...
Former New Yorker China correspondents Evan Osnos and Peter Hessler have written about their...
Recounting the experience of publishing his books in China, Peter Hessler describes shifts in...
The state of journalistic ethics in China has frequently been lamented in recent years, from state...
At The South China Morning Post, Dinah Gardiner talks to writers and publishers—including Evan...
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
Seven years covering China for The New Yorker, along with the acclaimed books River Town, Oracle...
At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Pallavi Aiyar reviews Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West by Peter Hessler, former China correspondent for The New Yorker. She discusses the tight focus of Hessler’s writing on...
On the Sinica podcast, Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn talk to The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos as he prepares to leave Beijing after eight years. Osnos describes his forthcoming book, due in Spring 2014, on “the power of...
Peter Hessler, the former New Yorker correspondent in Beijing, also wrote a best-selling book in 2001, River Town, which documented his two years teaching English as a Peace Corps volunteer in a town that was on the verge of...
Peter Hessler, a journalist at The New Yorker, is contributing to an anthology being published in September. The book, Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land, “tries to bring the diversity of...
The New Yorker’s former China correspondent Peter Hessler is among the 2011 MacArthur Fellows, whose awards were announced on Tuesday. To mark this, The New Yorker has collected links to all of Hessler’s...
China Beat co-sponsored a conversation between author Peter Hessler and UC Irvine HIstory professor Kenneth Pomeranz, which is now online at the Making History Podcast site. Listen to it here: This episode of the Making History...
On China Beat, Peter Hessler writes about the role that photography played in his trip across China that spawned his new book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory: From my perspective, the digital...
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