5/19/2023 0 Comments Rivertown peter hessler![]() ![]() ![]() One man was reportedly fired from his teaching position after he disciplined a naughty middle-school student with a harsh beating. There weren’t many of them, and they’d mostly got started during the boom years of the late nineteen-nineties and early two-thousands, when Chinese-business stories had their own Shakespearean qualities. The best Hamlet I ever taught died in Horatio’s arms, joined the Communist Party, moved to Tibet, and became a cadre in the Propaganda Department.Īnd then there were the entrepreneurs. One girl who had performed Juliet-wearing a red dress, standing atop a wooden desk in the balcony scene-enjoyed a successful post-Romeo career with the local government bureau that managed the one-child policy. ![]() As we stayed in touch over the years, certain character roles continued to develop, like plays that never ended. During the nineteen-nineties, I taught English literature, and I sometimes asked students to act out scenes from Shakespeare. In addition to the teachers, a handful of my former students had become government officials. The majority of his peers were now teachers who had as little as a decade left before they reached retirement age in China: sixty for men, fifty-five for women. By the time he finally started his business, in 2017, it had been twenty years since he sat in my classroom at Fuling Teachers College. As far as I knew, North was the last of my former students to become an entrepreneur. ![]()
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