![]() 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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