Chinese Lessons

A first-hand account of China’s transformation over the past forty years, as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates. “A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China’s hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future.” — The New York Times Book Review As a twenty-two-year-old exchange student at Nanjing University in 1981, John Pomfret was one of the first American students to be admitted to China after the communist