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'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times
'Compassionate... full of warmth' Guardian

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students now in their forties - members of China's Reform generation - and teaching his current undergraduates, Hessler is able to tell an intimately unique story about China's incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.

In the late 1990s, almost all of Hessler's students were the first of their families to enrol in higher education, sons and daughters of subsistence farmers who could offer little guidance as their children entered a brand-new worl

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      Publisher Atlantic Books
      Published 8/29/2024
      ISBN-13 9781805462866
      978-1805462866
      ISBN-10 1805462865
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      Book Synopsis

      'Memorable... One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times
      'Compassionate... full of warmth' Guardian

      More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary school. Through reconnecting with his previous students now in their forties - members of China's Reform generation - and teaching his current undergraduates, Hessler is able to tell an intimately unique story about China's incredible transformation over the past quarter-century.

      In the late 1990s, almost all of Hessler's students were the first of their families to enrol in higher education, sons and daughters of subsistence farmers who could offer little guidance as their children entered a brand-new worl

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