Assignment China

An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic

Mike Chinoy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

520 Seiten

2023
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-20799-7 (ISBN)

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This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China—from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic—in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists.

Reporting on China has long been one of the most challenging and crucial of journalistic assignments. Foreign correspondents have confronted war, revolution, isolation, internal upheaval, and onerous government restrictions as well as barriers of language, culture, and politics. Nonetheless, American media coverage of China has profoundly influenced U.S. government policy and shaped public opinion not only domestically but also, given the clout and reach of U.S. news organizations, around the world.

This book tells the story of how American journalists have covered China—from the civil war of the 1940s through the COVID-19 pandemic—in their own words. Mike Chinoy assembles a remarkable collection of personal accounts from eminent journalists, including Stanley Karnow, Seymour Topping, Barbara Walters, Dan Rather, Melinda Liu, Nicholas Kristof, Joseph Kahn, Evan Osnos, David Barboza, Amy Qin, and Megha Rajagopalan, among dozens of others. They share behind-the-scenes stories of reporting on historic moments such as Richard Nixon’s groundbreaking visit in 1972, China’s opening up to the outside world and its emergence as a global superpower, and the crackdowns in Tiananmen Square and Xinjiang. Journalists detail the challenges of covering a complex and secretive society and offer insight into eight decades of tumultuous political, economic, and social change.

At a time of crisis in Sino-American relations, understanding the people who have covered China for the American media and how they have done so is crucial to understanding the news. Through the personal accounts of multiple generations of China correspondents, Assignment China provides that understanding.

Mike Chinoy is a nonresident senior fellow at the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California. He spent twenty-four years as a foreign correspondent for CNN, serving as the network’s first Beijing bureau chief and senior Asia correspondent. Before joining CNN, Chinoy worked for CBS News and NBC News. He won Emmy, Dupont, and Peabody awards for his coverage of China.

Acknowledgments
Cast of Characters
Introduction
1. The Chinese Civil War
2. China Watching
3. “A Struggle of Sea Monsters”
4. The Week That Changed the World
5. End of an Era
6. Opening Up
7. “You Were Writing What We Were Thinking”
8. Testing the Limits
9. Beijing Spring
10. The Crackdown in Tiananmen Square
11. Aftermath
12. A Tale of Two Chinas
13. The New Millennium
14. Tremors
15. Contradictions
16. The Turning Point
17. Poison
18. Follow the Money
19. The Surveillance State
20. Emperor for Life
21. “Reeducation” in Xinjiang
22. “I Started to Cry”
23. Epidemic
24. Expulsion
25. The Door Closes
Notes
Suggested Reading
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	0-231-20799-9 / 0231207999
ISBN-13	978-0-231-20799-7 / 9780231207997
Zustand	Neuware