Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Peter Hessler Atlantic Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία History World

\ Memorable One Of [China\ S] Most Astute And Sensitive Foreign Observers\ Financial Times\ Compassionate Full Warmth\ Guardianmore Than Twenty Years After Teaching English To China\ S First Boom Generation At A Small College In Sichuan Province Peter Hessler Returned Teach The Next Same Time Hessler\ Twin Daughters Became Only Westerners Student Body About Two Thousand Their Local Primary School Through Reconnecting With His Previous Students Now Forties - Members Reform Generation\ Current Undergraduates Is Able Tell An Intimately Unique Story Incredible Transformation Over Past Quarter-Century Late 1990S Almost All Were Families Enrol Higher Education Sons Subsistence Farmers Who Could Offer Little Guidance As Children Entered Brand-New World By 2019 When Arrived University He Found Very Different China New Kind Child Whose Schooling Was Object Intense Focus From Much More Ambitious Sophisticated Cohort Parents Have Sense Irony Regime But Mostly Navigate Its Restrictions Equanimity Embrace Astonishing Opportunities Affords Pressures This System Extreme Meritocracy\ Scale Can Be Gruesome Even For Younger Including Own Give Him First-Hand View Raising Hands Perfect Vehicle Examining What\ Happened Country Where It\ Going What We Learn It Relations Between Uk Fracture Other Rivers Tremendous Indeed Essential Gift Work Enormous Human Empathy That Rejects Cheap Stereotypes Shows Us Inside Out Bottom Up Using Measuring Stick Universally Relatable Set Experiences Both Window Onto Distant Mirror Our Classic Book Value Compelling Interest Σελίδες: 464 Διαστάσεις: 16 5X16 5Cm