Peter Hessler: Why I Publish in China
Peter Hessler was The New Yorker’s Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007, and the author of...
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Censors and Sensibility: Writing In and On China
On the Sinica podcast, Ian Johnson joins Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn, and David Moser to discuss...
Peter Hessler, Henry Paulson, and Chinese Censorship
At the New York Review of Books, Ian Johnson discusses author Peter Hessler’s enormous...
Osnos and Hessler: To Publish Or Not in China
Former New Yorker China correspondents Evan Osnos and Peter Hessler have written about their...
Peter Hessler: Travels with My Censor
Recounting the experience of publishing his books in China, Peter Hessler describes shifts in...
Photos of Dead Singer Spark Media Ethics Uproar
The state of journalistic ethics in China has frequently been lamented in recent years, from state...
Mainland Censorship: Authors Cut Their Losses
At The South China Morning Post, Dinah Gardiner talks to writers and publishers—including Evan...
CDT Bookshelf: Interview with Tom Carter
Originally from San Francisco, photographer and explorer Tom Carter spent two years backpacking...
Hessler From Cairo: “In China, It’s Never Like This”
Seven years covering China for The New Yorker, along with the acclaimed books River Town, Oracle...
Peter Hessler’s ‘Strange Stones’ Reviewed
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...
Sinica: The Evan Osnos Exit Interview
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...
Return to River Town
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...
A Reporter’s Revelatory Journey to 1990s China
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...
Reading List: Peter Hessler
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...
Country Driving: Peter Hessler in Conversation with Kenneth L. Pomeranz
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...
Peter Hessler: Behind the Wheel, About to Snap
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...
Jonathan Yardley reviews “Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory” by Peter Hessler
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...
Feeling at Sea on the Roads of New China
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...
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