China Viewed from China (Robert Wright & Peter Hessler)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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0:28 Peter’s new book, Other Rivers: A Chinese Education 3:24 Have Chinese people become less hostile to America? 13:12 What Americans get wrong about China 17:38 Why Peter thinks Covid didn’t come from a lab 20:59 China’s transformative recent decades 31:10 Respect for authority in Chinese culture 40:26 Change in China between Peter’s two teaching stints there 54:41 Why the Chinese political system may change dramatically
Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Peter Hessler (River Town, Other Rivers). Recorded September 17, 2024.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero podcast. You're listening to Robert Wright's Non-Zero Podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, Peter. |
| 0:29.6 | Hi, Bob. |
| 0:31.6 | How you doing? |
| 0:32.6 | I'm doing okay. |
| 0:33.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:34.6 | All right. |
| 0:35.6 | You know exactly the same. That's quite the coincidence. |
| 0:39.3 | I'm doing okay. |
| 0:40.3 | Let me introduce this. |
| 0:42.3 | I'm Robert Wright, publisher in NonZone Newsletter. |
| 0:44.3 | This is the non-zero podcast. |
| 0:46.3 | You're Peter Hessler, staff writer to New Yorker. |
| 0:50.3 | You've written several books about China, the most recent of which is new, and we're going |
| 0:58.8 | to talk about that. |
| 1:01.9 | And you've also, you were in Egypt for a while, I think during the Arab Spring reporting |
| 1:06.6 | for the New Yorker and you wrote a book about Egypt, right? |
| 1:09.6 | Yeah, I was in Egypt for five years from 2011 to 2016. |
| 1:14.4 | So sort of during the, after the fall of Mubarak, but through the elections and all |
| 1:18.4 | of the stuff that happened with the Muslim Brotherhood. |
| 1:20.1 | I see. |
| 1:21.1 | Okay. |
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