“Although I am a student of literature,” writes one of Peter Hessler’s students in Sichuan, “I don’t know how to express facts in words now.”
It is one of many memorable lines in Other Rivers, the fourth book on China from an author and journalist who has long been one of its most astute and sensitive foreign observers.
Hessler’s 2019 appointment to teach non-fiction writing at the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute in Chengdu, a quarter of a century after he taught in the same province for the US Peace Corps, is one of several windows into the country’s education system and its current and former students.
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