On July 17, ChinaFile hosted the launch of Peter Hessler’s Other Rivers: A Chinese Education, a memoir of his two years teaching at Sichuan University in Chengdu from 2019 to 2021. The book explores elementary and college education, China’s handling of the outbreak of COVID-19, the lives of a previous generation of Hessler’s students, and U.S.-China relations, among many other topics. Hessler was in conversation with National Public Radio’s Asia Editor, Vincent Ni.
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07.23.24
Sideline Sinology
In August, when I visited Wuhan, I met with a young building-company manager who had worked on the construction sites of various emergency clinics and quarantine facilities during the city’s outbreak. “The pandemic is like a mirror,” the manager...