![]() For the most part, he avoided writing about the famous and the powerful, instead focusing on farmers, factory workers, students, teachers, traders, and small entrepreneurs. Together they comprise Hessler’s “China trilogy,” covering the decade in which he lived in the country, from 1996 until 2007.ĭuring this period, China underwent enormous change, and Hessler recorded the moment through observing the experiences of average citizens. ![]() This book was followed by two others about China: Oracle Bones (2006), and Country Driving (2010). For two years, he taught English and American literature at Fuling Teachers College, an experience that eventually became the subject of his first book, River Town, which was published in 2001. In 1996, he joined the Peace Corps, which sent him to Fuling, a small city in southwestern China. Originally from Columbia, Missouri, he has spent most of his writing life overseas. Peter Hessler is a writer of narrative nonfiction and the author of four books. ![]()
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