In his new book, "Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present," Peter Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the West as seen through the lives of a handful ...

While dating back 3,000 years, no one recognized how special the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty were until 1899. Yet the antiquarian who first perceived the value of the artifacts, etched with ...

Peter Hessler is an American writer and journalist. He is well known for his two books, *China, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze *(2001) and *Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and ...

In 2001, Peter Hessler set off on a 7000 mile drive across China. Over the next seven years, he tracked how the country's industrial boom transformed dirt paths into paved roads and small villages ...

Peter Hessler has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 2000. Between 2019 and 2021, he was the magazine’s correspondent in China, a role he also held from 2000 to 2007. From 2011 to 2016, he ...