Finding a Path to Critical Thinking in China
Fang Kecheng: Hello to both of you. Would you please first introduce yourselves? Especially sharing your experience before starting Plan C. Lan Fang: I’m a journalist. I studied law at the China...
View ArticleThe State of Surveillance in China
Joyce Chan: Can you start off by introducing your backgrounds? How did the idea of this book come about? And what goals did you have in mind when you got started? Josh Chin: We’re both reporters for...
View ArticleUsing Podcasts to Speak a New Language
In October 2022, the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s (CUHK) School of Journalism and Communication debuted its Media Professionals in Residence Programme. One of the first visiting fellows was Zhang...
View ArticleDigital Vigilantism and the “Good Chinese”
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick: The easiest targets for digital vigilantes are typically foreign individuals, countries, and brands. So when they turn their sights on other members of the same national or ethnic...
View Article‘Fighting to Remember’ June 4th in Hong Kong
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick: How long had you been in Beijing before the events of June 4th, 1989? Mak Yin-ting: I went to Beijing to cover Sino-British affairs in relation to Hong Kong. I was among the first...
View ArticleDefending Liberal Democracy with Neuroscience
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick: The preconception I had going into your book knowing it would explore dehumanization is that it would be about the precursors to mass atrocities because I thought that...
View ArticleThe Gaze of Exile
David Bandurski: Thanks for sitting down to reminisce about independent documentaries. It’s been a decade of rather dramatic change. As it happens, we’ve both landed in Taipei. But perhaps you could...
View ArticleTelling Ukraine’s Story of the Russian Invasion
David Bandurski: Needless to say, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been devastating and disruptive to people’s lives in your country. So first off, I just want to wish safety and security to...
View ArticleThe ‘Alternate Ethics’ of Chinese Journalism
Ryan Ho Kilpatrick: Here at CMP we try to highlight the exceptional work of Chinese journalists and push back against the perception that there isn’t meaningful reporting being done in China. In your...
View ArticleThe Risky Business of Hong Kong Journalism
Once a regional beacon of press freedom, Hong Kong’s media landscape has become barely recognizable under the harsh limitations imposed by the national security law (NSL) in 2020. And while...
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