Hessler, who first wrote about China in his 2001 bestseller, River Town, a portrait of his Peace Corps years in Fuling, continues his conflicted affair with that complex country in a second book that ...

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 ...

Near the beginning of Peter Hessler's new book about China, Oracle Bones, an archaeology team drills small holes in a field in Anyang, looking for the walls of an ancient settlement. Every core sample ...

1. Oracle Bones Peter Hessler Archaeologists call them “oracle bones,” the turtle shells and cattle shoulder blades dating from the 13th and 14th centuries B.C. that bear China’s first known ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Peter Hessler was a Correspondent for Beijing in the New Yorker Magazine with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2002 Speech. The year with the ...