Chris Buckley is a highly regarded and very resourceful correspondent based in Beijing for The New York Times. He has worked as a researcher and journalist in China since 1998, including a stint at Reuters, and is one of the few working China correspondents with a Ph.D. in China studies. Chris’ coverage has included politics, foreign policy, rural issues, human rights, the environment, and climate change. He also has an informative and sometimes very amusing Twitter account.
In this podcast, recorded with a live audience in Beijing, Kaiser and Jeremy ask Chris about his tradecraft and sourcing of stories about elite Chinese politics, his views on Xi Jinping and the anti-corruption campaign, and what we can expect from the 19th Party Congress this fall. Chris also talks about the joys of journalism in a country that makes it very difficult to do.
Recommendations
- Great Wall Fresh: Great Wall, Great Country Cooking
- Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
- Intentions: Examining my Peers in the Republic (心路-透视共和国同龄人), by Mi Hedu (on Amazon China)
- “Interactive Graph: The Who’s Who of China’s Leading Small Groups,” by Jessica Batke and Matthias Stepan, Mercator Institute for China Studies