# Peter Hessler

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Snake Super Health Podcast EPISODE 7: Peptides, Peptides, Peptides

Episode 7: Peptides Hello. SEVENTH episode of Snake Super Health the POD, a discussion on health for people interested in its edge—nutrition, red light, lifting, musculature, face yoga, foot yoga, no other types of yoga—but who are otherwise NORMAL. Or who aren’t. Whatever. Subscribe on Spotify, o…

E-18 - THE CRUSHED CAN by F.E. Beyer (2025, Sandfly Press)

New Zealand writer Frank Beyer (who goes under the name F.E. Beyer) talks to John about novels featuring a much maligned creature: the Western English teacher in East Asia. Frank is something of a connoisseur of these stories, and his latest novel, The Crushed Can, adds to the canon. This fun page-…

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler

For this Apollo on Call x W5H Book Club episode, Dave and Luki read Other Rivers: A Chinese Education by Peter Hessler. The book focuses on the quirks and challenges in the education system the author witnessed as a visiting professor in China. At the end, Dave and Luki reflect on an entire year of…

A former paperboy in Columbia, and a haunting secret.

Guest host Ted Farnen talks with Peter Hessler, Author and Staff Writer for The New Yorker.  His nostalgic essay, "The Paperboy's Secret", details his childhood years delivering papers for the Columbia Missourian.  The piece reflects on his preteen experiences with grueling early-morning routes, co…

S9 Ep. 38: Peter Hessler on the Implications of a Chinese Education

Acclaimed nonfiction writer Peter Hessler joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about his new memoir, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education. Hessler, a New Yorker staff writer who first went to China as a teacher in the 1990s, explains how education there shifted between that e…

From River Town to Other Rivers: Peter Hessler on the Education of China and Himself

KeywordsPeter Hessler, River Town, Other Rivers, Chinese education, Modern China, Teaching in China, American writer in China, China memoir, Cross-cultural communication, Chinese students, Peace Corps China, China nonfiction, Chengdu China, Author interview, Narrative journalismA rare, reflective c…

How China Controls Its History: Tiananmen Square, Tank Man, & Xi Jinping | Jeff Wasserstrom

Peter Hessler on Living in China: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2lAtRzI8b3QR4xrFIgwbKy?si=d7hyYX7JQfymieFSxQ_iig In this episode, host Tyrel sits down with renowned historian and author Jeff Wasserstrom to discuss the complex history of student movements in China, state memory, and how history i…

The ‘But China!’ Dilemma Driving the A.I. Race

America is waking up to the critical risks posed by artificial intelligence. But every conversation about possible regulation tends to hit the same wall: “Well, what about China?” Chinese A.I. models are just slightly behind American ones. If America slows down its A.I. development to make our mode…

Chinese Whispers: Peter Hessler on what English names can reveal about China

Why do so many Chinese people choose such curious English names? You must have come across this phenomenon – whether they are names from a past century, or surnames, nouns or even adjectives used as first names, or words that aren’t real at all. I have a particular interest in this because my Engli…