Peter Hessler
China rejects renewal of American writer's contract for his Covid outbreak views
Beijing: An American writer, who had once voiced against China's "botched" response to the COVID-19 outbreak, has said he is returning to his nation after the Chinese university where he was teaching did not renew his contract.
Peter Hessler has been working as an assistant professor at the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute in Chengdu since 2019.
Hessler said on Monday he had hoped to continue teaching at the Sichuan University-Pittsburgh Institute (SUPI), but would return to Colorado at the end of the semester with his wife and twin daughters, as their visas would expire in the summer, reports South China Morning Post.
In a statement posted to Chinese social media platform Douban on his behalf over the weekend, Hessler stressed he had “greatly enjoyed being back in the classroom after more than 20 years”.
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