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Assignment China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 339

Assignment China

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 c...

China Live
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 457

China Live

In China Live, Mike Chinoy provides an insider's view of two of the most important forces shaping our era—the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China. Exploring not only how events shape television, but how TV can shape the news as it unfolds, Chinoy describes his personal and professional journey through key political dramas, from armed conflict in Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Indochina, and Afghanistan, to the “people power” revolution in the Philippines and the ongoing crisis in North Korea. The core of the book is Chinoy's lifelong involvement with China. As CNN's first Beijing bureau chief, Chinoy recounts a riveting tale of covering the China beat, especially the momentous events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. CNN's unprecedented live broadcasts of the student uprising and army crackdown marked a turning point in modern journalism and played a critical role in shaping international perceptions of China. China Live remains a compelling account of the life of an award-winning foreign correspondent and a revealing glimpse inside the world of television news.

China Live
  • Language: en

China Live

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Mike Chinoy, CNN Hong Kong Bureau Chief, has been reporting the China story since the mid-1970s. As founder and head of CNN's Beijing Bureau, he was at Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989, bringing to the world the unfolding saga of revolution and reaction, live and up close. His reporting not only awakened the conscience of the world, but helped put CNN on the map as a new and powerful force in international politics. He has won many of the major awards for broadcast journalism. This is a story of Asia in our times, a uniquely penetrating and poignant portrait of a nation and its people. It is also the story of his personal quest and quiet courage.

Meltdown
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 461

Meltdown

When George W. Bush took office in 2001, North Korea's nuclear program was frozen and Kim Jong Il had signaled he was ready to negotiate. Today, North Korea possesses as many as ten nuclear warheads, and possibly the means to provide nuclear material to rogue states or terrorist groups. How did this happen? Drawing on more than two hundred interviews with key players in Washington, Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing, including Colin Powell, John Bolton, and ex–Korean president Kim Dae-jung, as well as insights gained during fourteen trips to Pyongyang, Mike Chinoy takes readers behind the scenes of secret diplomatic meetings, disputed intelligence reports, and Washington turf battles as well as inside the mysterious world of North Korea. Meltdown provides a wealth of new material about a previously opaque series of events that eventually led the Bush administration to abandon confrontation and pursue negotiations, and explains how the diplomatic process collapsed and produced the crisis the Obama administration confronts today.

Are You with Me?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

Are You with Me?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Kevin Boyle was central in founding human rights law centres at universities from Ireland to Japan. Though a towering figure, his personal story is not well known. Now, based on years of research, thousands of documents, and scores of interviews, former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy has crafted the compelling life story of a remarkable Irishman.

The Gate to China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

The Gate to China

"The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on documents from archives in China and the West, interviews with key figures and eyewitness reporting over three decades"-- Provided by Amazon book.

The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

The 1981 Irish Hunger Strike

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-01-19
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  • Publisher: McFarland

The hunger strike of 1981 is regarded as one of the most tragic events in Irish history. Ten men died over a period of 217 days in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh (Maze) prison while exercising the most extreme form of civil disobedience available to them. The Troubles that gave rise to the hunger strike had roots in the centuries of socio-economic subjugation and religious persecution in Ireland. In 1971, the British government began internment without trial for persons suspected of belonging to paramilitary organizations. Eventually, the British government granted Special Category Status to these prisoners before later stripping it from the prisons by 1976, leading to a five-year prisoner protes...

Unmasked
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Unmasked

A young journalist uncovers untold stories during the COVID-19 pandemic ✓ ranked #1 in Amazon's Chinese (Traditional) Ebook (translated version) "As Covid swept across the globe, Taiwan remained one of the few places where the outbreak was kept under control. Nonetheless, the disease had a huge impact there, especially for young people. Laura Hsu, has compiled a record of the experience of living through Covid. Through her eyes, and those of others in her generation, we are given a fascinating insight into what it was like to cope with a frightening new disease that forced dramatic changes in the way people lived and studied. Her accounts from friends elsewhere in Asia, and in the United States, help complete this portrait of a generation facing a challenge unlike any other. Beyond the headlines, this account provides a sense of how Covid upended lives and forced young people to consider issues they had never really confronted before." -preface by Mike Chinoy, USC U.S.-China Institite Non-Resident Senior Fellow, and Former CNN Senior Asia Correspondent

China Live
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 468

China Live

A unique insider's view of the most important forces shaping our era--the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China.

The Gender of Memory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 481

The Gender of Memory

What can we learn about the Chinese revolution by placing a doubly marginalized group—rural women—at the center of the inquiry? In this book, Gail Hershatter explores changes in the lives of seventy-two elderly women in rural Shaanxi province during the revolutionary decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Interweaving these women’s life histories with insightful analysis, Hershatter shows how Party-state policy became local and personal, and how it affected women’s agricultural work, domestic routines, activism, marriage, childbirth, and parenting—even their notions of virtue and respectability. The women narrate their pasts from the vantage point of the present and highlight their enduring virtues, important achievements, and most deeply harbored grievances. In showing what memories can tell us about gender as an axis of power, difference, and collectivity in 1950s rural China and the present, Hershatter powerfully examines the nature of socialism and how gender figured in its creation.