While volunteering among earthquake survivors in rural Sichuan, a travel writer discovers that the “real” China is both beautiful and confronting. “Lushan is a nice village. Maybe one million,” our…
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30.1 million people – greater than the population of New Zealand, Australia and Scotland combined. A city of skyscrapers erupting chaotically out of cloud strewn mountains like fungus on a…
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Vibrant blue and yellow prayer flags were wrapped around an ugly metal pylon. The thin fabric shook frantically in the wind, as if electrified by the current surging through…
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Earlier this week I had the privilege of interviewing one of my favorite authors, Peter Hessler. As a staff writer for The New Yorker and author of three acclaimed books…
