Susan Shirk Interviewed on The Wall Street Journal
Eight Questions: Susan Shirk, ‘Changing Media, Changing China’
03/30/2011
Josh Chin,
The Wall Street Journal
The effort to make sense of what’s happening in Chinese media is one of the most fascinating, but also confusing and exhausting, jobs of the China watcher. That job was recently been made easier with the publication of “Changing Media, Changing China,” a collection of essays from Oxford University Press, dog-eared copies of which grace multiple desks inside The Wall Street Journal’s Beijing bureau.
Published late last year, the book pairs insider accounts from respected current and former Chinese journalists with essays by some of the field’s most engaged academic observers, and covers everything from public opinion on the Internet to the development of Chinese military journalism. The volume was edited by Susan Shirk, who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of East Asia and Pacific Affairs during the Clinton Administration.
China Real Time had the chance to sit down with Ms. Shirk, now a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, to discuss her book, the big changes she sees happening in Chinese media, and what those changes mean for other countries trying to work with China.
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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.
She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.
