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Peter Hessler Education article

Peter Hessler Education article

The Double Education of My Twins’ Chinese School In a recent New Yorker article, Peter Hessler probes his twins’ experience attending elementary school in China compared with their schooling in the United States, all compared with their Chinese great-grandfather’s...

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Fraught Relations, Friendship or Both?

Fraught Relations, Friendship or Both?

Seemingly contradictory to Xi Jinping’s rhetoric that constantly builds tension between China and the West, China’s consul general in Los Angeles has published this newsletter seeking friendship and exchanges with the United States. Such statements are approved by...

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Cave Homes of Rural China

Cave Homes of Rural China

The slanting afternoon sun cast sharp shadows as An Wei, the host of a rural Chinese teaching project I had joined, showed us the caves where An Shang villagers lived 20 years before.  “This is where I visited my uncle’s family in their cave,” he said, leading us into...

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