Join ChinaFile for an evening with author Peter Hessler to discuss his new book, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Hessler will be in conversation with National Public Radio’s Asia Editor, Vincent Ni ...

SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) -American author and New Yorker writer Peter Hessler has said the Chinese university where he has been teaching non-fiction writing has not renewed his contract for the next ...

Author and staff writer for The New Yorker Peter Hessler will speak at a So Kwan Lok Distinguished Lecture event titled ” A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Students” ...

In The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution, a narrative nonfiction account of Egypt after the Arab Spring, Peter Hessler puts his finger on the pulse of the nation by describing his ...

A decade ago, shortly before Peter Hessler moved to Cairo, an acquaintance told him that Egypt's capital never seemed to change. This was meant as a criticism, but to Hessler, a New Yorker staff ...

In summer 2001, New Yorker Beijing correspondent Peter Hessler got his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled thousands... Observations Of China, From Behind The Wheel China ...

Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is well known for his two books, *China, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze *(2001) and *Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and ...

One of the first things a student at Hickman High School demanded to know from best-selling author Peter Hessler was: Did he really eat a rat? "I actually ate two rats," he replied to the mortified ...