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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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