Bibliograph

Seeing, a memoir of truth and courage from China's most influential television journalist, Chai Jing ; translated by Yan Yan and Jack Hargreaves

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Seeing, a memoir of truth and courage from China's most influential television journalist, Chai Jing ; translated by Yan Yan and Jack Hargreaves

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Seeing

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1394914489

Responsibility statement

Chai Jing ; translated by Yan Yan and Jack Hargreaves

Sub title

a memoir of truth and courage from China's most influential television journalist

Summary

"After becoming a radio DJ in college and a TV interviewer at 23, Chai Jing is thrust into the spotlight when she takes on a position as a news anchor at CCTV, China's official state news channel. Chai struggles to find her role in a male-dominated news organization, discovering corruption, courage, and hope within the people she meets while honing her talent for getting people to reveal themselves to her. In eleven propulsive and deeply felt chapters, Chai recounts her investigations into SARS quarantine wards, a childhood suicide epidemic, the human cost of industrial pollution, and organized crime, while looking back at her growth as a journalist. Chai Jing shares the philosophical and emotional complexity of the ethical challenges that are always present in such revealing reporting, while she also finds hope and purpose, time and again, in the vital and intimate stories of her interviewees. This candid memoir from one of China's best-known journalists provides a rare window into the issues which concern us most, and which face contemporary China and the whole world"--, Provided by publisher

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