Peter Hessler

The President of China compared moral education to fastening buttons on clothes, Peter Hessler writes. The girls’ buttons were wrong from the start, but they learned the more valuable lessons that two systems can impart.

Peter Hessler writes about how the country experienced so much social, economic, and educational change while its politics remained stagnant.

Peter Hessler writes that the students he taught in the nineteen-nineties grew up in rural poverty. Now they’re in their forties, and their country is unrecognizable.

While political leaders trade threats, the pandemic has made Americans even more reliant on China’s manufacturers, Peter Hessler writes.

There’s no other country where the pandemic’s effects have been so concentrated in a single city, Peter Hessler writes.

Peter Hessler on teaching and learning in Sichuan during the pandemic.

Peter Hessler on forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.

The agency has always been viewed as removed from political spats. But the timing of the U.S.’s decision seems suspicious, Peter Hessler writes.

Peter Hessler on a gay Egyptian who left his homeland.

Peter Hessler on raising a family during a revolution.

Peter Hessler reports on Chen Yaying and Liu Jun, who sell G-strings to conservative Muslim women.

Peter Hessler went on book tour with Zhang Jiren, his Chinese censor.

Will the elections end the Egyptian revolution?

An American reporter takes on the yakuza.

How the Chinese experienced the Olympics.

Yao Ming’s journey from China to the N.B.A., and back.