Podcasts about fuling

This week on Sinica, the highly-regarded writer Peter Hessler joins to talk about his new book, out July 9: Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Over 20 years after teaching with the Peace Corps in Fuling (the subject of his first book, Rivertown, Pete returns to China to teach at Sichuan University in Chengdu. He writes about the two cohorts of students, with whom he has maintained extensive contacts, to offer fascinating insights into how China has changed across this momentous period with touching, deeply human stories. 3:47 – Why Pete couldn't teach in Fuling again6:56 – How Pete stayed in touch with his Fuling cohort 9:46 – Pete's SCUPI [(Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute)] cohort 13:51 – Pete's Fuling cohort 19:35 – Chinese rural values: pragmatism and modesty23:08 – The physical and psychological differences between the Fuling and Chengdu cohorts 29:32 – “Educated acquiescence” in the Chinese education system 35:07 – The Hessler family's experience with Chengdu Experimental Primary School43:04 – The impending lack of “Country feel,” and Pete's sense of humor 47:02 – Facing criticism over his reporting during the pandemic 52:13 – Pete's experience being jǔbào'ed and teaching Orwell's Animal Farm 59:01 – Pete's take on the COVID origins debate1:02:10 – Competition and authoritarianism in China, and the phenomenon of Chinese and Chinese American Trump supporters 1:06:57 – Serena's investigation for Chángshì and why Pete's contract was not renewed 1:15:28 What's next for Pete Recommendations:Pete: Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux, a forthcoming novel about George Orwell's time in Burma as a policeman; Burmese Days by George Orwell Kaiser: the Meta Quest VR headset See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In view of the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics (officially the XXIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly known as Beijing 2022) this interview is a repost.  In the summer of 2001, Peter Hessler, the longtime Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, acquired his Chinese driver's license. For the next seven years, he traveled the country, tracking how the automobile and improved roads were transforming China. Hessler writes movingly of the average people—farmers, migrant workers, entrepreneurs—who have reshaped the nation during one of the most critical periods in its modern history. Country Driving begins with Hessler's 7,000-mile trip across northern China, following the Great Wall, from the East China Sea to the Tibetan plateau. He investigates a historically important rural region being abandoned, as young people migrate to jobs in the southeast. Next Hessler spends six years in Sancha, a small farming village in the mountains north of Beijing, which changes dramatically after the local road is paved and the capital's auto boom brings new tourism. Finally, he turns his attention to urban China, researching development over a period of more than two years in Lishui, a small southeastern city where officials hope that a new government-built expressway will transform a farm region into a major industrial center. Peter Hessler, whom The Wall Street Journal calls "one of the Western world's most thoughtful writers on modern China," deftly illuminates the vast, shifting landscape of a traditionally rural nation that, having once built walls against foreigners, is now building roads and factory towns that look to the outside world. Hessler, a native of Columbia, Missouri, studied English literature at Princeton and Oxford before going to China as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1996. His two-year experience of teaching English in Fuling, a town on the Yangtze, inspired , his critically acclaimed first book. After finishing his Peace Corps stint, Hessler wrote freelance pieces for  and the  before returning to China in 1999 as a Beijing-based freelance writer. There he wrote for newspapers like the , the  and the  before moving on to magazine work for  and the .

This week on Sinica, a live show taped on November 11 at the fourth annual NEXTChina Conference at the China Institute in New York, featuring Peter Hessler. Pete returned to the U.S. from Chengdu over the summer after his contract at Sichuan University, where he was teaching journalism and freshman composition, was not renewed. His departure sparked speculation about government displeasure at his reporting for The New Yorker — despite earlier criticism that his coverage of China's COVID-19 response had been too favorable to Beijing. Pete joins Kaiser and Jeremy to discuss his latest book, The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution, his approach to writing on China, his interactions with his students, and the real reasons for his departure from China.3:18 – How Egypt sheds light on China7:00 – Language-learning as a device in Pete Hessler's writing9:50 – How Pete kept in touch with over 100 students from Fuling — the making of a longitudinal cohort study18:33 – How Pete is viewed in China vs. in Egypt25:10 – Pete's writing on Chinese entrepreneurship29:02 – Why Pete & Leslie moved to Chengdu — and why they had to leaveA transcript of this podcast is available on SupChina.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We continue to bring historical facts, places to see and things to do while cruising along the Yangtze River. Today we are talking about Fuling and Fengdu. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://centuryrivercruises.wordpress.com/2021/07/13/cities-along-the-yangtze-fuling-and-fengdu/

Peter Hessler is always focusing on presenting ordinary people’s lives. It has been more than ten years since the publication of his China Documentary Trilogy. In 2019, Peter returned China and settled in Chengdu, Sichuan Province with his wife Leslie Chang and their twin daughters. Since then, he has been working as a teacher at Pittsburg College of Sichuan University. During the past ten-odd years, moving from one country to another has already become a way of living for him. For this reason, Peter is always regarding himself as an outsider no matter where he live. As a writer, the outsider identity keeps his mind sharp, makes it easier for him to observe the world. In Peter’s writing class at Sichuan University, why did he invite his students to think about their social class? What does he think of China’s writing education? With so many nonfiction writing materials, how does China establish its own tradition and market? How does he receive and consider about Chinese contemporary literature? In his eyes, what kind of reporting tradition should we stick to ? In this August, we went to Chengdu and had a conversation with Peter Hessler. The conversation, lasting for three hours, is divided into two episodes and the latest one is online this week, available in both English and Chinese. The Chinese version is translated by Li Xueshun, the Chinese translator of River Town, Strange Bones and Country Driving, who was also Peter’s former colleague in Fuling. In the previous episode, Peter shares with us his life in Chengdu, especially his observation on Covid-19. He also called back the backstories of writing the Chinese Documentary Trilogy. For this week, he mentions about his long-lasting friendship with his former students and colleagues, his teaching life in Sichuan University, and also his opinions on non-fiction writing, education system, class solidification and the value of establishing face-to-face connections with people in the fast-changing world. 【Timeline】 03:00 Facing more intense competition, students from one-child family nowadays work even harder than those students in Fuling over 20 years ago. 08:53 The discussion of social class in writing class: George Orwell is the Lu Xun of England; analyzing social class gives people a special perspective. 13:43 The success of River Town doesn’t change any other’ lives more than Peter’s. 17:02 Peter’s long-lasting friendship with his former colleague Li Xueshun and students Willy and Emily. 20:30 He’s an “outsider” wherever he lives, and this keeps his mind sharp to observe the world. 24:10 On education system: “The United States is too relaxed and China is too hard. I think a middle path would be the best.” 25:38 Both Peter Hessler and Lesile Zhang spent a lot of time doing math exercises in order to help their daughters. 28:42 China’s writing courses in He Wei’s eyes: “You memorize these set phrases, you use them as a writer. It's often not so much on expressing yourself.” 29:49 Students in China must recite many poems, which is unusual in the U.S. This behavior connects people with their tradition. 32:40 Non-fiction writing materials can be found everywhere in China. But China hasn’t yet established a market big enough to support the tradition. 34:58 “If I'm going to support myself as an independent writer，I have to be smart with money and investments.” 38:28 Chinese students majoring in journalism prefer theory learning to practical reporting. 39:15 Peter is impressed by many Chinese novels such as Wolf Totem. He realized that Chinese writers tend to use symbols to describe about the society. 46:49 In Peter’s mind, it’s of great value to interact with people face to face. He consider himself as a dinosaur in the times of social media. 50:58 Class solidification do exist in China, but there still remains some fluidity. 【Host】 Li Weiqi Media worker and literary critic (Weibo ID: BeulahDong) Gu Yu Former foreign media journalist and former PR in Alibaba 【Guest】 He Wei, or Peter Hessler (born June 14, 1969) an American journalist, non-fiction writer and a staff writer in New Yorker who is the author of three books(River Town, Country Driving and genius Grant) about China 【Recommendation】 My Brilliant Friend By Elena Ferrante 【Music】Shanghai Restoration Project Opening Music-- Public Poet Ending Music-- There and Then 【Graphic Design】 Sun Xiaoxi 【Post Production】 Chen Jinjian Shi Hualun 【Production Manager】 Han Yuying 【Translator】 Li Xueshun 【Voice Actor】 Zhao Zhe 【Platform】 Listen to our podcast on apps like xiaoyuzhou, Netease Music, Himalayan FM, Qingting FM, Lychee FM, Qingmang, Apple Podcasts, Castro and Pocket Casts. 【Contact Us】 Wechat: Tiadao FM Weibo: Tiadao FM Email: tiaodaoFM@citicpub.com

He Wei（Peter Hessler）, an American non-fiction writer, is renowned for his China Documentary Trilogy among Chinese readers. Having come to China in late 1990s, he taught in Fuling for two years and wrote his observation on Chinese society as an outsider. After leaving China for many years, he, together with his wife Leslie Chang and his twin daughters, came back here, a land of familiarity and strangeness, in 2019. He now teaches non-fiction writing at Pittsburg College of Sichuan University. Also, as a witness to the spread of the pandemic earlier this year, he published an article How China Controlled the Coronavirus on New Yorker, which triggered extensive discussion. Why did he decide to return to Chengdu? What did he think of what happened in Danwei( a kind of administrative unit in China) and communities during the coronavirus epidemic? How did he look back on the written China stories in China Documentary Trilogy ? What did he feel about the significant changes taking place in China over these years? Why did he——who once concentrated on writing stories of nobody and ordinary people——now decide to write more about celebrities? And why did he accept the teaching job in Sichuan University instead of being a reporter? In August, we came to Chengdu and had a conversation with He Wei for three hours. The interview has been divided into two episodes and the latter one will be broadcasted next week. These two programs will be available for both English and Chinese. The Chinese dubbing draft of these programs is translated by Li Xueshun, the translator of River Town, Strange Stones and Country Driving. And next week, He Wei will talk about his opinions on non-fiction writing and children’s education. Stay tuned. 【Timeline】 02:18 On returning to Sichuan: for Sichuan cuisines, Sichuan dialect and connecting with the people there. 03:55 For establishing connections with people, I decided to be a teacher in Sichuan University instead of a reporter. 05:30 Banquets, Worldly Wisdom and Jielong with body temperature: about the experience in my Danwei. 07:00 I wrote an article for New Yorker about how China controlled coronavirus, because I think it's very important for Americans to see what happened here. 08:00 People in communities did a lot of intimate-contact tracing. They would help a lot with the epidemiologists who's directing the virus. 12:55 I became interested in China during my travel in Asia after leaving Oxford, so I decided to be volunteer in China. 18:00 Portraying life accurately in Fuling is all I can do. Because humor was part of their reality. 19:55 As a writer, to get rid of cliché and be respectful, it’s more important to analyze than to judge those people whom you are writing. 39:10 Having different sexual identities and ethnic groups, He Wei and his Wife Leslie Chang may write about Chinese from different perspectives. 43:45 An anecdote about Zhang Tonghe tells me that taking notes is an important part in our writing, because memories are unreliable. 50:47 It's important to write about ordinary people. But I think I probably should write about successful people as well. 【Host】 Li Weiqi Media worker and literary critic (Weibo ID: BeulahDong) Gu Yu Former foreign media journalist and former PR in Alibaba 【Guest】 He Wei, or Peter Hessler (born June 14, 1969) an American journalist, non-fiction writer and a staff writer in New Yorker who is the author of three books(River Town, Country Driving and genius Grant) about China 【Recommendation】 The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power By Robert A.Caro 【Music】Shanghai Restoration Project Opening Music-- Public Poet Ending Music-- There and Then 【Graphic Design】 Sun Xiaoxi 【Post Production】 Chen Jinjian Shi Hualun 【Translator】 Li Xueshun 【Voice Actor】 Zhao Zhe 【Production Manager】 Han Yuying 【Platform】 Listen to our podcast on apps like xiaoyuzhou, Netease Music, Himalayan FM, Qingting FM, Lychee FM, Qingmang, Apple Podcasts, Castro and Pocket Casts. 【Contact Us】 Wechat: Tiadao FM Weibo: Tiadao FM Email: tiaodaoFM@citicpub.com

Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Peter Hessler @peterhessler. @NewYorker For @KGNU we discuss here what may be learned from how China managed and appears to have controlled #Coronavirus. #COVID19. Hessler has been teaching and living with his wife, the journalist Leslie T Chang, and their family in Sichuan throughout the pandemic. Peter Hessler joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2000. From 2000 until 2007, he was the magazine’s correspondent in China and, from 2011 to 2016, he was based in Cairo, where he covered the events of the Egyptian Arab Spring. His subjects have included archeology in both China and Egypt, a factory worker in Shenzhen, a garbage collector in Cairo, a small-town druggist in rural Colorado, and Chinese lingerie dealers in Upper Egypt. Before joining The New Yorker, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Fuling, a small Chinese city on the Yangtze River. He is the author of six books, including a trilogy about the decade-plus that he spent in China: “,” “,”which was a National Book Award finalist, and “.“ His book about Egypt, “,” was published in May. He is the winner of an American Society of Magazine Editors award and, in 2011, was named a MacArthur Fellow. He lives in southwestern Colorado.    

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Saluto una persona a me cara che ha perso la lotta contro il cancro.

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Due chiacchiere con la signora seduta vicino al finestrino.

La crisi climatica spiegata in poche parole dopo aver letto il libro di Greta Thunberg

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Il bellissimo matrimonio di Nico e Mery a Matera

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Spiegare la mia italianità a chi si ferma ai miei occhi a mandorla!

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Natale con i più piccoli e i più desiderosi di calore umano!

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Peter Hessler is a staff writer for The New Yorker. “It may have helped that I didn’t have a lot of ideas about China. You know, it was sort of a blank slate in my mind. …I wasn’t a reporter when I went to Fuling, but I was thinking like a reporter or even like a sociologist: try to respond to what you see and what you hear, and not be too oriented by things you’ve heard from others or things you may have read. Be open to new perceptions of the place or of the people.” Thanks to MailChimp and Squarespace for sponsoring this week's episode. Show Notes: Hessler on Longform Hessler's New Yorker archive [14:00] "Boomtown Girl" (New Yorker • May 2001) [21:00] Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (HarperCollins • 2006) [21:00] "Travels With My Censor" (New Yorker • Mar 2015) [24:00] "Dr. Don" (New Yorker • Sept 2011) [25:00] "Tales of the Trash" (New Yorker • Oct 2014)

更多访谈内容请关注我们明天（10.10）的微信：搜索英语环球 NEWSPlus 从《寻路中国》、《江城》到《奇石——来自东西方的报道》，何伟的作品，俨然已经成为外国人写中国的纪实标杆之作。媒体评价他的作品说：“他笔下的是真中国，是连一些生活在中国的青年人都不知道或拒绝认识的中国”。 Among foreign writers who write about stories in China, Peter Hessler definitely stands out because of his various observed accounts of ordinary people in a rapidly changing Chinese society. The American writer and journalist has several acclaimed books about China, and numerous articles he contributed to The New Yorker and National Geographic, among other publications. And now he has his newest book, Strange Stones, translated into Chinese and published. Peter Hessler knew he was going to be a writer when he was 16. He joined the Peace Corps in 1996 and was sent to China to teach English at a teachers college in Fuling, a small city near the Yangtze River in Sichuan Province. He wrote the stories and observation on China into first book called River Town. Peter worked in China as freelance writer for numerous publications later, and began his writer's career.