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It was described as an oral history of American journalists in China, covering events from 1945 to the present day, highlighting the difficulties reporters faced in penetrating Chinese secrecy and control of narratives.
The book is based on over 100 interviews I did during the past 15 years with people who've covered China for the US media from 1945 and the start of the Chinese Civil War right through the covid pande...
— Episode: Morning Joe 3/22/23
Episode: Morning Joe 3/22/23
It was described as an oral history of American journalists in China, covering events from 1945 to the present day, highlighting the difficulties reporters faced in penetrating Chinese secrecy and control of narratives.
The book is based on over 100 interviews I did during the past 15 years with people who've covered China for the US media from 1945 and the start of the Chinese Civil War right through the covid pandemic up to the present day.
The idea is that most folks who watch the news or read the news don't have any idea how that news got there.
What was it like to be in Shanghai when the communist army rolled in in 1949? What was it like to go on the press plane to China with Richard Nixon or to be in Tiananmen Square as I was in 1989 or to try to cover China under the very, very tight repression and restrictions that exist today?
The central theme in Assignment China has been this endless struggle that American and other foreign journalists have had to go through to sort of penetrate the secrecy and that the Chinese Communist Party has imposed.
Episode: Morning Joe 3/22/23
It was an oral history of American journalists' experiences in the People's Republic of China, spanning from 1945 to the present day, detailing the challenges they faced while reporting under Chinese Communist Party restrictions.
The book is based on over 100 interviews I did during the past 15 years with people who've covered China for the US media from 1945 and the start of the Chinese Civil War, right through the covid pandemic up to the present day.
The idea is that most folks who watch the news or read the news don't have any idea how that news got there. But as anyone who's in the news business knows, the process by which people report and write and transmit the news is central to what folks see.
So I thought it would be interesting to get people who have been on the front lines, the people who've told the China story to tell their own story.
What was it like to be in Shanghai when the Communist Army rolled in in 1949? What was it like to go on the press plane to China with Richard Nixon or to be in Tiananmen Square as I was in 1989 or to try to cover China under the very, very tight repression and restrictions that exist today?
The central theme in Assignment China has been this endless struggle that American and other foreign journalists have had to go through to sort of penetrate the secrecy and that the Chinese Communist Party has imposed.