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“Sometimes I thought of the Peace Corps as a reverse refugee organization, displacing all of us lost Midwesterners, and it was probably the only government entity that taught Americans to abandon key national characteristics. Pride, ambition, impatience, the instinct to control, the desire to accumulate, the missionary impulse - all of it slipped away.”

Quote by Peter Hessler

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Peter Hessler, born on June 14, 1969, is an American writer whose work primarily focuses on China and its culture. Through in-depth investigation and delicate pen, he portrays the diversity and complexity of Chinese society. more

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