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02990aam a22004458i 4500 001 990540E6390111EF921F5BD751ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240703010044 008 240215s2024 nyu b 001 0deng 010 $a 2024007384 020 $a 0593655338 020 $a 9780593655337 035 $a (OCoLC)1404818294 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d ORX $d OCLCO $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-cc--- 100 1 $a Hessler, Peter, $d 1969- $e author. 245 10 $a Other Rivers : $b A Chinese Education / $c Peter Hessler. 263 $a 2407 264 1 $a New York : $b Penguin Press, $c 2024. 300 $a 449 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Part 1. Chapter one: Rejection -- Chapter two: The old campus -- Chapter three: The new campus -- Chapter four: Chengdu experimental -- Chapter five: Earthquake -- Part 2. Chapter six: The city suspended -- Chapter seven: Children of the Corona -- Chapter eight: The sealed city -- Chapter nine: Involution -- Chapter ten: Common sense -- Chapter eleven: Generation Xi. 520 $a "More than two decades after teaching English during the early part of China's economic boom, an experience chronicled in his book River Town, Peter Hessler returned to Sichuan province to instruct students from the next generation. At the same time, Hessler and his wife enrolled their twin daughters in a local state-run elementary school, where they were the only Westerners. Over the years, Hessler had kept in close contact with many of the people he had taught in the 1990s. By reconnecting with these individuals-members of China's "Reform generation," now in their forties-while teaching current undergrads, Hessler gained a unique perspective on China's incredible transformation. In Peter Hessler's hands, China's education system is the perfect vehicle for examining the country's past, present, and future, and what we can learn from it, for good and ill"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Hessler, Peter, $d 1969- $x Travel $z China. 610 20 $a Sichuan da xue. 650 0 $a College students $z China $x Interviews. 650 0 $a Education, Higher $z China $x History $y 20th century. 650 6 $a Enseignement supeÌrieur $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378892 $z Chine $0 (CaQQLa)201-0476619 $x Histoire $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378892 $y 20e sieÌcle. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0378892 651 0 $a China $x Intellectual life $y 1976- 651 6 $a Chine $x Vie intellectuelle $y 1976- $0 (CaQQLa)201-0089837 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Travel writing. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000519 655 7 $a ReÌcits de voyages. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001117 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hessler, Peter, 1969- $t Other rivers $d New York : Penguin Press, 2024 $z 9780593655344 $w (DLC) 2024007385 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20240703010415.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=990540E6390111EF921F5BD751ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search