US writer Peter Hessler to leave China after losing teaching job

New Yorker writer says Chinese university where he teaches non-fiction writing has not renewed his contract for the next academic year.

American author and New Yorker magazine writer Peter Hessler has said the Chinese university where he has been teaching non-fiction writing has not renewed his contract for the next academic year and that he will leave the country at the end of the semester. Hessler has been an assistant professor at the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute in Chengdu since 2019. He has been a staff writer with the New Yorker since 2000.