A New York Times Notable book, this memoir by a journalist who lived in a small city in China is "a vivid and touching tribute to a place and its people" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remar...

An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter centuryMore 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 ...

'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times'Compassionate... full of warmth' GuardianMore than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their loc...

When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of Fuling on the Yangtze River. But what he experienced - the natural beauty, cultural tension, and complex process of understanding that takes place when one is thrust into a radically different society - surpassed anything he could have imagined. Hessler observes firsthand how major events such as the death of Deng Xiaoping, the return of Hong Kong to the mainl...

An intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter centuryMore 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 ...

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students now in their forties - members of China's "Reform generation" - and teaching his current undergraduates, Hessler is able to tell an i...

「中國觀察」、「報導文學」、「非虛構寫作」殿堂級作家──何偉2001年《江城》英文版出版、2006年首度在台灣面世，從《江城》、《甲骨文》、《尋路中國》、《奇石》、《埃及的革命考古學》到《別江》，何偉的作品，是這個時代了解中國、投入報導寫作，勢必要攀爬的崇山，要橫渡的江水提到當代中國的非虛構寫作，我們絕對不會繞過何偉這位作家。1996年，何偉以美國和平工作隊（Peace Corps）志工的身分到中國，在四川臨長江邊的一座小城涪陵當老師教英文。那年何偉27歲，有兩個學位，單身，沒有正職工作，笑稱自己是「家裡蹲」，他只有滿滿的教學熱情，跟手中的一支筆。一切故事，就從這裡開始……【江城】──何偉作品集的最初起點在幽緩慢活的韶光流轉中，在變動劇烈的一片向榮裡，何偉依江而居，感受與學生和涪陵人相處的日常點滴，書寫出一部連中國人自己都未能體察的心態史和底層故事。何偉非虛構寫作的發源地，何偉作品集的最初起點。【甲骨文】──見證中國的變化、歷史的...