Nic Cavell

1 week ago | dissentmagazine.org | Nic Cavell |Han Zhang |Jeffrey Wasserstrom |David Bandurski

Gaokao Losers In China, academic competition has become a kind of faith, providing values and a sense of purpose to its acolytes. ▪ Spring 2025 Other Rivers: A Chinese Educationby Peter HesslerPenguin Press, 2024, 464 pp. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Peter Hessler explored the novelty of being a foreign teacher in Fuling, China, in the mid-nineties.

Sep 12, 2024 | dissentmagazine.org | Nic Cavell |Jane Hu |Jake Werner |Jeffrey Wasserstrom

The Literature of Uyghur Disappearance Three recent books offer a searing portrait of the calculated brutality of the ongoing Uyghur genocide. ▪ Spring 2024 Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: An Uyghur Poet’s Memoir of China’s Genocideby Tahir Hamut Izgil, trans. by Joshua L. FreemanPenguin Press, 2023, 272 pp. The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiangby Perhat Tursun, trans. by Darren Byler and AnonymousColumbia University Press, 2022, 168 pp.