Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

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 communis...