IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia
Peter Hessler (China Correspondent, The New Yorker)
| DATE: | Friday, November 19, 2004 |
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| TIME: | 12:00-1:30 p.m. |
| PLACE: | Journalism Library, North Gate Hall |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSOR: | Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, School of Journalism |
Mark Leong/Redux
Peter Hessler, China correspondent for the New Yorker and author of River Town will speak from his new book manuscript. Join us as he follows some of his former students who have migrated from River Town to eastern China. He chronicles their journey from village life in rural Sichuan to the country's coastal boomtowns. Drawing from letters and diaries of young migrants, he shows how they negotiate their new environment and examines the changes in their attitudes resulting from the experience of migration. He also provides a glimpse of the villages that are left behind. While the boomtowns may be overwhelming, the nation's tremendous changes may be even more apparent in the dying villages.
Free and open to the public.
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