Assignment China : : An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic / / Mike Chinoy.

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, America...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CAST OF CHARACTERS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE)
  • 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 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