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The Beijing Bureau : 25 Australian Correspondents Reporting China's Rise.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Watson, Trevor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China.
- Diplomatic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (218 pages)
- Other Title:
- Beijing Bureau
- Place of Publication:
- Richmond : Hardie Grant Publishing, 2021.
- Summary:
- At a time of peak international interest and uncertainty over developments in China and its future international role, Australia's most acclaimed China watchers will share their experiences as foreign correspondents and their insights into the life of the Chinese people, their government, their culture and their history.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Beijing Bureau timeline
- The rise of China - the big story
- PART ONE: XI'S CHINA
- 1. The last days of (Australian) journalism in China
- 2. Hong Kong: the 'revolution of our time'
- 3. Weaponising history
- 4. The Shenzhen bureau
- 5. A dirty little village
- PART TWO: DATELINE BEIJING
- 6. An Australian bureau opens in Mao's China
- 7. A labour of desperation and despair
- 8. Coups and earthquakes in the Year of the Dragon
- 9. The writing on the wall - an early Beijing Spring
- 10. A place to call home
- 11. The doomed Uighurs of Xinjiang
- PART THREE: TIANANMEN CHANGES EVERYTHING
- 12. 'The People's Army loves the people'
- 13. Where nothing and no one is as they seem
- 14. Reporting stability: the aftermath of Tiananmen
- PART FOUR: TO GET RICH IS GLORIOUS
- 15. Deng's 'cash culture' revolution
- 16. 'Like God, the Party is everywhere'
- 17. Lost and found in Shanghai
- 18. The chickens catch a cold
- 19. Winners and losers in the Chinese casino
- 20. Father and Son
- 21. You can leave China, but it doesn't leave you
- 22. From sounds to silences
- PART FIVE: A CENTURY OF HUMILIATION
- 23. George Morrison: a secret society and the Siege of Peking
- 24. George Johnston: eating bitterness in the War of Resistance
- 25. Built on the memory of wounds
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright Page.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-74358-775-9
- OCLC:
- 1246581267
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