Shanghai Monday Aug. 16: “Assignment: China” – Mike Chinoy with Graham Earnshaw

Posted: August 14th, 2010 | No Comments »

of possible interest if you happen to be in Shanghai on Monday:

The Shanghai Foreign Correspondents’ Club Presents:

“Assignment: China”

Mike Chinoy

with Graham Earnshaw

Venue: The (God Awful piece of architecture that is…) The Puli Hotel

Monday, August 16th, 6:30 pm (Screening starts at 7)

Covering China is one of the most difficult journalistic assignments. It’s also one of the most important in the world. For more than 60 years, foreign correspondents have profoundly influenced international views of the country. Mike Chinoy will screen for the Shanghai FCC a preview of his ambitious new documentary series “Assignment: China.”  The project features rare footage and interviews with the generation of correspondents who covered China in the 1940s and the first generation of journalists to be based in China after the 1979 economic reforms.  Mike and Graham Earnshaw, one of the reporters interviewed in the documentary, will answer questions after the showing.

Venue details: The (God Awful) PuLi Hotel and Spa, 3rd Floor, 1 Changde Road, near Jing’An Temple, adjacent to Jing’An Park (3203 9999)

Admission: Members free; Non-members 50 RMB

RSVP: fcc.sfcc@gmail.com

(Membership can be renewed on the night: Correspondent and media members – 400 RMB; Associate – 600 RMB)

About the Speakers:

Mike Chinoy is a former CNN Asia Correspondent, who received Emmy, Peabody and DuPont awards for his reporting of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crisis. As a senior fellow at the University of Southern California’ US-China Institute, he is the lead writer and reporter for “Assignment: China.” He is also vice president and managing director for Asia of NewsCertified Exchange, which provides a database of experts for global news media and gives media training to academics and business leaders.

Graham Earnshaw was posted to Beijing with Reuters in 1979, and in 1980 became the Daily Torygraph’s China correspondent. He later returned to Reuters and in the mid-1990s he opened its Shanghai bureau, but soon quit journalism to set up his own business ventures. His varied career since has included websites, the Park 97 restaurant and hooker pick up joint; Sinomedia (publisher of the China Economic Review and the widely read and academically admired SpaChina – a sort of Monocle for people who appear to be quite happy sitting in a bath all day) and Xinhua Finance News (of which the less said the better). In 2007, he started Earnshaw Books. A keen, though not necessarily over capable musician, he also claims to have played in China’s first ever rock concert shortly after Kublai Khan founded Khanbalik.

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