ChinaFile Presents: China Reporting in Exile

In recent years, many of China’s most distinguished journalists have found themselves living and working outside of China. Some have joined international media organizations while others have built their own platforms, forging a new landscape for understanding China from beyond its borders and outside of the structures its government places on expression. Their work is creating new communities of readers and thinkers in a rapidly changing Chinese diaspora.

What insights does reporting from outside of China bring? What does it miss? What role can independent Chinese language media outlets abroad play in shaping public opinion within China?

To explore these questions, Asia Society’s online magazine ChinaFile and The New York Review of Books will host a discussion with three women pioneering this work: reporter, editor, and digital media entrepreneur Annie Jieping Zhang; The New York Times’ Li Yuan, who is also the host of the popular Bu Mingbai Podcast; and investigative journalist and essayist Jiang Xue. They will be in conversation with Ian Johnson, a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and a Senior Fellow for Chinese Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, and with ChinaFile’s Editor-in-Chief, Susan Jakes.