Military Review, July 1st, 2003
Peter Hessler, HarperCollins Publishers, NY, 2001, 402 pages, $26.00.
After obtaining literature degrees at Princeton and Oxford, Peter Hessler joined the Peace Corps and for 2 years taught English literature at Fuling Teachers College in Sichuan, China. His book, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, is a candid, compassionate, insightful picture of a part of contemporary China little known to Westerners.
Hessler traded the academic dictatorship of deconstructionists and multiculturalists for the major and minor tyrannies of the college's communist bureaucrats, going against their wishes ...
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