{"product_id":"seeing-a-memoir-of-truth-and-courage-from-chinas-most-influential-television-journalist-hardcover","title":"Seeing: A Memoir of Truth and Courage from China's Most Influential Television Journalist - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChai Jing\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eYan Yan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eJack Hargreaves\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the tradition of Katy Tur, Jane Pauley, and Peter Jennings, Chai Jing shows us the power of television news and the complex challenges of reporting in China.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in 1976, Chai Jing is an award-winning reporter and television host in China. While working at CCTV from 2001, she gained recognition covering the SARS epidemic in 2003. Her reporting on domestic violence in China contributed to the enactment of groundbreaking anti-domestic violence legislation in 2005. In the same year, Chai released \"In the Name of Life,\" an interview with members of China's LGBT+ population that marked the first open appearance of queer people in Chinese media. In 2007, she won the National Green People Award for her coverage of pollution in her hometown. \u003ci\u003eSeeing\u003c\/i\u003e has sold over 5 million copies since its Chinese publication in 2012. In 2015, Chai Jing was named one of \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's 100 most influential people, and one of the top 100 global thinkers by \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.2 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 22, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764917895456,"sku":"9781662600678","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/16c33e90c4b9aba6f3532085b46fd746.webp?v=1780257635","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/seeing-a-memoir-of-truth-and-courage-from-chinas-most-influential-television-journalist-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}