Other Rivers - A Chinese Education

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system

About the author

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000-2007 and Cairo correspondent from 2011-2016. He is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Country Driving, and Strange Stones. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur fellow in 2011.

Summary

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system

Foreword

An intimate and revelatory eyewitness account of two generations of students in China's heartland, chronicling a country in the midst of tumultuous change through the prism of its education system

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hessler, Hessler Peter
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2024
• EAN: 9781805462859
• ISBN: 978-1-80546-285-9
• No. of pages: 464
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 38 mm
• Weight: 760 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Geopolitics, EDUCATION / History, Travel / Asia / China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Sichuan, Asian History, Classic Travel Writing, Educational strategies and policy