摘要
Other Rivers:A Chinese Education (Penguin Press, July 9) The book offers an intimate and revelatory look at China’s education system through the experiences of American journalist Peter Hessler. Hessler first came to China in 1996 to teach English at a local teacher’s college in Sichuan province, which he chronicled in his Kiriyama Prize-winning memoir, River Town:Two Years on the Yangtze. Over 20 years later, upon returning to teach at Sichuan University in Chengdu, the provincial capital, he encountered an entirely different generation of Chinese college students. At the same time, he enrolled his two children in a local state-run elementary school, providing him with unique insights into the Chinese education system.
