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Peter Hessler's Chinese name is {{linktext|何|伟}} (Hé Wěi).
Peter Hessler's Chinese name is {{linktext|何|伟}} (Hé Wěi).
In 1999, Peter Hessler started his own Yahoo Scholarship Fund which is aimed at helping
In 1999, Peter Hessler started a Yahoo Scholarship Fund which supports
the poor students in Sichuan, Chongqing and Tibet. The annual spending on the fund is
students in Sichuan, Chongqing and Tibet. Annual spending on the fund is
around 10,000 USD.So far the yahoo scholarship has been going on for a decade. Each year around 80 students can get financial aid from Peter Hessler. Currently, the fund is
around $10,000USD. 80 students annually receive aid from the fund.
running well with the help of one of Peter Hessler's former students-William Foster who is based in China's Zhejiang province.


==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==

Revision as of 22:08, 21 June 2009

Peter Hessler (b. June 14, 1968) is an American writer and journalist. He was the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker and a contributor to National Geographic. He has previously written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, and other American newspapers and magazines. He is best known for his two books on China: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (2001), a Kiriyama Prize-winning book about his experiences in two years as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English in China, and Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present (2006), a collection of journalistic stories he wrote while living in Beijing. While his stories are ostensibly about ordinary people's lives in China and are not motivated by politics, they nevertheless touch upon political issuess or the lives of people who encountered problems during the Cultural Revolution, the central example being that of the story of the archaeologist Chen Mengjia and his wife, poet and translator Zhao Luorui (aka Lucy Chao).

Peter Hessler grew up in Columbia, Missouri and graduated from Hickman High School in 1988. His father was a sociology professor at the University of Missouri, and his mother teaches history at Columbia College. He became interested in literature and writing while in high school. He went on to study English and creative writing at Princeton University, where, during his junior year, he took John McPhee's renowned writing seminar. Hessler graduated in 1992 and won a Rhodes Scholarship to study English language and literature at the University of Oxford. In 1996, he joined the Peace Corps and spent the next two years teaching English at a local college in Fuling, China. Since 1999, he has lived in Beijing as a freelance writer. He is currently married to journalist and writer Leslie T. Chang.

Peter Hessler's Chinese name is 何伟 (Hé Wěi). In 1999, Peter Hessler started a Yahoo Scholarship Fund which supports students in Sichuan, Chongqing and Tibet. Annual spending on the fund is around $10,000USD. 80 students annually receive aid from the fund.

Bibliography

Books

  • Hessler, Peter (2006). River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze (P.S.). Harper Perennial. pp. S. pp. 1–4. ISBN 0-0608-5502-9. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

Articles

Talks

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