Peter Hessler: Why I Publish in China
Peter Hessler was The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and the author of...
by Josh Rudolph | Jun 11, 2015
Peter Hessler was The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and the author of...
by Cindy | Jun 8, 2015
On the Sinica podcast, Ian Johnson joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser to discuss...
by Samuel Wade | Apr 21, 2015
At the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson discusses author Peter Hessler’s enormous...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 19, 2015
Former New Yorker China correspondents Evan Osnos and Peter Hessler have written about their...
by Cindy | Mar 2, 2015
Recounting the experience of publishing his books in China, Peter Hessler describes shifts in...
by Samuel Wade | Jan 20, 2015
The state of journalistic ethics in China has frequently been lamented in recent years, from state...
by Natalie Ornell | Jun 10, 2014
At The South China Morning Post, Dinah Gardiner talks to writers and publishers—including Evan...
by Natalie Ornell | Feb 13, 2014
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
by Josh Rudolph | Sep 26, 2013
Seven years covering China for The New Yorker, along with the acclaimed books River Town, Oracle...
by Samuel Wade | Jul 16, 2013
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...
by Samuel Wade | Jun 25, 2013
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...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 27, 2013
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...
by 不忘初心 | Jul 6, 2012
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...
by Samuel Wade | Sep 21, 2011
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...
by Sophie Beach | Apr 7, 2010
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...
by Sophie Beach | Mar 9, 2010
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...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 28, 2010
The Washington Post reviews Peter Hessler’s new book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory, starting with a section about Sancha, the village outside Beijing where he rented a house: “In the...
by Sophie Beach | Feb 25, 2010
The New York Times reviews the new book by Peter Hessler, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory: Mr. Hessler’s book is more ambitious than its subtitle makes it sound. This work is as much about staying...