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Peter Hessler on China’s Evolving Education System
08/28/2024
Peter Hessler on China’s Evolving Education System
In 1996, when Peter Hessler first went to China to teach, almost all of his students were first-generation college students. Most came from large rural families, and their parents, subsistence farmers, as their children entered a new world. By 2019, when Mr. Hessler arrived at Sichuan University, he found a very different China, as well as a new kind of student – an only child whose schooling was the object of intense focus from a much more ambitious cohort of parents. China’s education system offers a means of examining the country’s past, present, and future. At a time when anti-Chinese rhetoric in America has grown intense, is a work of empathy that shows us China from the inside out and the bottom up. In an interview conducted on August 6, 2024, Peter Hessler, in conversation with Lenora Chu, looks at Chinese education as a way to understand both China and the United States. About the speakers: Follow Peter Hessler on X: Follow Lenora Chu on X: for video of . Follow us on and
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