Peter taught non-fiction writing at Sichuan University – Pittsburgh Institute. In August 2019, he and his family moved to Chengdu in southwest China. While living there, peter and his wife both learned Egyptian Arabic. He stated that he envisioned spending five or six years in the Middle East. In an interview upon being named a MacArthur Fellow in September 2011, he expressed his intention to spend much of the next year learning Arabic. In October 2011, Peter and his family moved to Cairo, where he covered the Middle East for The New Yorker. The book detail his experiences in Egypt during the Arab Spring. In 2019, Peter published The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution. Peter joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2000 and served as a foreign correspondent until 2007. He later worked in China as a freelance writer for publications such as The Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, the South China Morning Post, and National Geographic. Peter joined the Peace Corps in 1996 and was sent to China for two years to teach English at Fuling Teachers College.
He is a Uighur dissident who fled to the U.S., and the archaeologist Chen Mengjia who committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution.
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (2006) features a series of parallel episodes featuring Peter’s former students. It also shows the significant economic and industrial growth taking place there. His third book, Country Driving: A Journey from Farm to Factory (2010), is a record of Peter’s journeys driving a rented car from rural northern Chinese counties to the factory towns of southern China. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001) is a Kiriyama Prize-winning book about his experiences in two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in China.
Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (2013) Peter Hessler River Town Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (2006)Ĭountry Driving: A Journey from Farm to Factory (2010), River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001) Jennifer Gonnerman – staff writer Peter Hessler Books
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