Seeing

A Memoir of Truth and Courage from China's Most Influential Television Journalist

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Pub Date 22 Aug 2023 | Archive Date 18 Sep 2023

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In 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.

After 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.

In 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.

This 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.
In 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.

After becoming a radio DJ in college...

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PAGES 304

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A story that needs to be retold again and again. This book and Chai Jing teaches us that in the most adverse of situations, humans always find a way through. And oppression never wins in the end. The resistance she shows again and again against the lies of the Party are incredible. A must read for any person living on this Earth. Could be applicable against the government, against bullies, against adversity, against mental issues. All of it.
That's how good this book and this person is.

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This is an interesting look at a female Chinese news journalist and what she had to go through to report the news in her own country. With the best intentions to be truthful and fair to her interviewees and report the news honestly, the author went up against more seasoned male journalists who were critical, but also helpful at times.

The author's stories were about major issues that Chinese people were facing. She focused on the ordinary people involved and brought their emotional and frightening challenges to light. Chai Jing reported with courage, empathy, and concern making her a well-known journalist in China today.

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A revealing look at Jing's life as a journalist. I am interested in the topics she has researched and reported on first-hand. It was also interesting to see how her life unfolded and how she was able to get her jobs and how she was perceived socially.

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