Videos

New Yorker Magazine correspondents who have covered China for two generations talked about their coverage of that country and U.S. and Chinese perceptions of each other.

U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, the Asia Society’s Orville Schell, and ABC News' George Stephanopoulous, who moderated the event, talked about what’s next in U.S.-China relations. Ambas…

Journalists spoke about media coverage of China and their experiences covering events within the country. Among the topics addressed were access given to reporters, censorship, Chinese media…

“Nixon in China: The Week That Changed the World” was an event to mark the 40th anniversary of President Nixon’s February 1972 trip to China. Mr. Schell moderated a panel discussion that foc…

Frank Dikotter takes a new look at Mao’s Great Leap Forward (1958-62), using the recently opened Communist Party archives. Professor Dikotter says that between those years, at least 45 milli…

Pico Iyer talked about his book The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama (Vintage; reprint edition March 10, 2009). Mr. Iyer, a travel writer, talked about his own work…

Panelists talked about the book Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. Former Chinese Communist Party premier and secretary general Zhao Ziyang was ousted from the…

Michael Meyer talked about his book The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed, published by Walker & Company. In his book he profiles the transfor…

The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom, published by Harper, recounts the life of Joseph Needham (1900-1995)…

A panel of Asian journalists discusses the rising political and economic influence of China in East Asia. Among the issues they addressed were the growth of the Chinese economy, China’s infl…

Mr. Johnson talked about his book, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China, published by Pantheon Books. In the book, the author argues that there exists a growing tension betwe…

In a discussion of U.S.-Chinese relations, the panelists talked about national security, the World Trade Organization, and the complexity of this relationship. Secretary Campbell commented o…