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.
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