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David Bandurski is the Executive Director of the China Media Project, an organization based in the US, with an office in Taipei, that is one of the world's leading authorities on PRC media and politics, as well as global Chinese-language media. He is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village (Penguin/Melville House), a book of reportage about urbanization and social activism in China, and co-editor of Investigative Journalism in China (HKU Press). Bandurski is a journalist based in Taipei, Taiwan. CMP Website: **** On Substack: **** Tian Jian (a magazine for Chinese-language journalism sustainability): ****
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[BOOK] Investigative Journalism in China: Eight Cases in Chinese Watchdog Journalism:
Despite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism has flourished in China over the last decade. This volume offers a comprehensive, first-hand look at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China’s top stories in recent years. While many outsiders hold on to the stereotype of Chinese journalists as docile, subservient Party hacks, a number of brave Chinese reporters have exposed corruption and official misconduct with striking ingenuity and often at considerable personal sacrifice.
[BOOK] Dragons in Diamond Village: And Other Tales from the Back Alleys of Urbanising China:
2009, on the outskirts of the southern metropolis of Guangzhou, Xian villagers secretly prepared for the Dragon Boat Festival. For them, the commemoration of the 221 BC poet Qu Yuan, who threw himself into a river to protest official corruption, held particular resonance. Guangzhou’s drive to become a ‘National Model City’ ahead of the 2010 Asia Games accelerated a voracious demand for land, turning the ground beneath the villagers’ feet into a commodity as valuable as diamonds, a treasure too rich for local officials to ignore. Dragons in Diamond Village is about the courage of individuals: Huang Minpeng, a semi-literate farmer turned self-taught rights defender; He Jieling, a suburban housewife who just wanted to open a hair salon. Theirs is a community bound by shared history and a belief in the necessity of change, a band of unlikely activists.
