Dan Keane is a Lecturer in the Writing Program at NYU Shanghai. His reporting, fiction, and criticism have appeared in Harper’s, The Washington Post, The Austin Chronicle, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope: All-Story, ArtForum, and The Best Nonrequired American Reading, among others. A graduate of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan, he formerly worked as the Bolivia correspondent for The Associated Press.
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Last Updated: September 12, 2019
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Why Is the FBI Investigating Americans Who Study in China?
Over the last two years, the FBI has questioned at least five U.S. citizens who have studied at Yenching Academy, a Master’s degree program hosted by Peking University. The purpose of the interviews, according to NPR, is to “ascertain whether they...