The College of Arts and Science at The University of Missouri - Columbia, welcomes Peter Hessler to campus as our featured Lloyd B. Thomas Lecturer. Hessler, a New Yorker writer and acclaimed novelist, spent more than a decade in China, leaving in 2007. He recently journeyed back to China and will discuss some of the many changes he experienced since leaving 25 years ago. We are delighted to invite you to attend his spectacular lecture.