Mike Chinoy on American Journalists Covering China

8 Fort Street,Springfield MA 01103

21 March, 2023

Description

Veteran journalist Mike Chinoy will speak at a luncheon on his new book, Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic. The 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. 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. 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. If you have any food restrictions--vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free or other allergies--please contact Executive Director Cyd Melcher at [email protected] or by calling 413-733-0110.