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Reception at 4:00 p.m., talk begins at 4:30 p.m.

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About the talk:

In 1996, Peter Hessler was sent by the Peace Corps to teach for two years at a small college in Fuling, a remote town on the Yangtze River. After finishing his Peace Corps service, he became a foreign correspondent, and for more than two decades he stayed in close contact with his former students. In 2019, he returned to teach again in the same region. His new book, Other Rivers, describes the sweeping changes he observed in the landscape, the city, and in the young people he taught.

About the speaker:

For more than twenty years, Peter Hessler has been a staff writer at The New Yorker. He first went to live in China as a Peace Corps volunteer, from 1996 to 1998, an experience that became the subject of his book, River Town. With Hessler’s next two books—Oracle Bones and Country Driving—he completed a trilogy of reported works that spanned a decade in China. In 2019, Hessler returned to Sichuan province, where he taught writing at Sichuan University. He also covered the pandemic, reporting from Wuhan and other cities during 2020 and 2021. This experience became the subject of his sixth book Other Rivers. In 2011, Hessler was named a MacArthur Fellow.