John Pomfret, Los Angeles bureau chief of The Washington Post
| DATE: | Thursday, February 8, 2007 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 PM |
| PLACE: | North Gate Hall Library, Hearst at Euclid Avenue, Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia |
| SPONSORS: | Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Institute of International Studies |
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China is Washington Post bureau chief John Pomfret’s evocative recounting of the lives of his former classmates in the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. In Chinese Lessons, the lives of Pomfret’s classmates are the vehicle for telling China's story--one of the most tumultuous the modern world has ever known. By weaving his classmates’ lives into an extraordinary chronicle of the past forty years of China’s reinvention, Pomfret reveals the new China as it has never been seen before. Pomfret relates their small and large triumphs, and how the Chinese, as individuals and as a society, grapple with the skeletons of their past as they continue to push forward into futures marked by ever-increasing prosperity, opportunity, and unease.
John Pomfret is currently Los Angeles Bureau Chief of The Washington Post. Leaving China in 1982, Pomfret returned for the Tiananmen Square protests and the crackdown of June 4, 1989. Expelled by the Chinese government at that point, he again returned to live from 1998-2005 as the Post's bureau chief in Beijing. Pomfret is the recipient of the Osborn Elliott Prize for Journalism by the Asia Society which is given annually to the best coverage of Asia. For more information about John Pomfret and Chinese Lessons, please visit http://johnpomfret.net/
Program followed by reception and book-signing.
Other programs in the IEAS Book Series: New Perspectives on East Asia.
