Episode 158: Peter Hessler (live)
b'Peter Hessler is a staff writer for The New Yorker.\\n\\n\\u201cIt may have helped that I didn\\u2019t have a lot of ideas about China. You know, it was sort of a blank slate in my mind. \\u2026I wasn\\u2019t a reporter when I went to Fuling, but I was thinking like a reporter or even like a sociologist: try to respond to what you see and what you hear, and not be too oriented by things you\\u2019ve heard from others or things you may have read. Be open to new perceptions of the place or of the people.\\u201d\\n\\nThanks to MailChimp and Squarespace for sponsoring this week\'s episode.\\n\\nShow Notes:\\nHessler on Longform\\nHessler\'s New Yorker archive\\n[14:00] "Boomtown Girl" (New Yorker \\u2022 May 2001)\\n[21:00] Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China (HarperCollins \\u2022 2006)\\n[21:00] "Travels With My Censor" (New Yorker \\u2022 Mar 2015)\\n[24:00] "Dr. Don" (New Yorker \\u2022 Sept 2011)\\n[25:00] "Tales of the Trash" (New Yorker \\u2022 Oct 2014)\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'