Hey, Seneca listeners. Our Golden Week Sinica Network Bonanza continues with an outstanding episode of China Econ Talk.

Jordan Schneider, the show's host, interviews one of the great China writers, really one of the great writers of our time, Peter Hessler.

I devoured his latest book, The Unburied, in Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution this summer.

And for me,

as I'm sure it will be the case for all cynical listeners, it was just fantastic to have him doing a running comparison with China throughout. So Pete and his family are now back in China

after more than a decade away. And they're now living in Chengdu, and I don't know about you,

but I cannot wait to read his writing from China again.

Meanwhile, this will certainly wet your appetite.

So enjoy, and remember to subscribe to China Econ Talk.

Jordan's done some wonderful interviews that you'll all certainly appreciate.

Round music, China?

What are they even saying?

What is this Chinese rap music?

Sounds like they're just saying ching-chang-tone.

My chance new go watch Made in China.

We play ping-pong-pong-bob met in China. So we've had a lot of guests on China We've had a lot of guests on China Econ talk over the past two years,

but I can't think of anyone I'm more excited to have on than Peter Hessler.

Peter was the long-time correspondent for the New Yorker in China

and the author of three classics of the expat journalist explores China genre, Rivertown,

Oracle Bones, and Country Driving, what I wouldn't give to write as well as he does. Some years ago,

he moved with his family to Egypt and recently published The Buried and Archaeology of the Egyptian

Revolution, which we're going to talk about today. Peter Hessler, welcome to China Econ Talk.

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