The theme of this blog will be stories from my country fellows from China, people I met in the US, people I met back in China. I thoughts about two writers while thinking about this blog series.
SHEN Congwen (沈从文), a Chinese writer, started his writing career in the 1930s. He described as he left the home village in Xiangxi (湘西) as a teenage, it was the beginning of reading a bigger book, and learning from more people that he would meet. That was the same prescient moment as I boarded an airplane for the first time in my life, headed to America in 1991.
Peter Hessler, an American writer, started his writing in the late 1990s, and still writes for the New Yorkers today. Peter is very much my contemporary with his experience in China, and I could not help comparing people I met with those in Peter's River Town.
