Chapter 1: The Whole World is Watching
Chapter 2: We Have Friends All Over the World
Chapter 3: Year of the Dragon
Chapter 4: Good Guys and Bad Guys
Chapter 5: Fireman
Chapter 6: Beijing Bureau Chief
Chapter 7: The Soul of China: Tiananmen Square
Chapter 8: The Big Lie
Chapter 9: A Tale of Two Chinas
Chapter 10: Inside the Hermit Kingdom
Chapter 11: End of the Dynasty
Chapter 12: Conclusion
Mike Chinoy is senior fellow at the U.S.-China Institute at the University of Southern California. Previously, he spent 24 years as a foreign correspondent for CNN. He founded the CNN Beijing bureau in 1987 and headed it for eight years. He also served as bureau chief in Hong Kong and as senior Asia correspondent. In the course of his career, he received Emmy, Dupont, and Peabody awards for his coverage of China and Asia. He is also the author of Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
The book is not just a definitive account of the 1989 pro-democracy
movement, but a revealing tale of the education—and loss of
innocence—of a foreign correspondent.
*Time*
[Chinoy] has combined a moving chronicle of his experiences with a
sense of what is meant to deal with a totalitarian regime’s
uncertainty in coming to grips with both the movement and CNN. . .
. A fine and unusually truthful revelation of the changes America’s
technology is making throughout the world.
*Kirkus*
Mr. Chinoy recreates a rapid-fire, day-by-day account of Beijing’s
spring of 1989.
*The Washington Times*
For any reader in search of a compelling account of the life of a
first-rate television newsman, CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy has
produced just the book.
As an eyewitness account of the tumultuous weeks in Beijing eight
years ago, it is lively and gripping.
*Asiaweek*
China Live [is] a book worth reading. It is a dramatic, first-hand,
and personal account that focuses solely on events in Beijing.
*South China Morning Post*
China Live is the fast-paced tale of a career that has taken
[Chinoy] from sectarian violence in Northern Ireland and the U.S.
Marine barracks bombing in Lebanon to the war in Afghanistan and
the fall of Marcos in the Philippines—and to dozens of hot spots in
between. Mostly, though, it is about the author’s complicated
two-decade relationship with China, which he studied at Yale and
quickly fell in love with.
*USA Today*
CNN is arguably the most famous television network in the world,
and Mike Chinoy was its justly famed Beijing bureau chief for eight
years. He kept his cameras rolling throughout the Tiananmen
uprising, filming live, until the Chinese forced CNN off the air,
and millions of screens around the world went blank. The core of
the book . . . is the excellent running account of Tiananmen from
its first day in mid-April to weeks after the massacre.
*Times Literary Supplement*
This superb book is far more than a 'China volume.' While bringing
China’s recent history alive, Chinoy also provides a fascinating,
inside view of the development of CNN as a major force. In the
process, he conveys the dynamic interplay between the medium and
the message and makes the reader understand what is involved in
covering the major events of the era. Chinoy’s coverage of
Tiananmen shaped the way the world understood this complex event,
and this book provides a detailed, compelling, honest
behind-the-scenes account of this journalistic feat. Overall,
Chinoy’s frank reflections reveal the maturing of an idealistic
reporter in the crucible of Asian and Middle Eastern politics of
the 1970s to the 1990s. Chinoy has become one of the best, and his
fluid writing makes the journey portrayed in this book a pleasure
to travel. I enthusiastically recommend China Live to anyone
interested in China, in the role of television in global politics,
or simply in a very good read about an individual and his
times.
*Kenneth G. Lieberthal, University of Michigan*
I could not put the book down. It is an extraordinarily vivid
account of what it was like covering China from the front lines.
Chinoy has a wonderful capacity for capturing the sounds and sights
of China, but he is unique in that he keeps looking for the broad
perspective and has an intellectual honesty and openness that allow
the reader to understand the ‘lens’ as well as the scene itself. A
wonderful book.
*Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University*
This fascinating odyssey of a moderately radical child of the '70s
whose wide-eyed admiration for Mao’s China evolves into a
clear-eyed, perceptive and thoroughly engaging account of his own
passage into personal and professional maturity. Largely
autobiographical, this is not another reporter’s account of 'famous
people who have known me,' but rather a compelling story of how on
different levels, Mike Chinoy, CNN, and the People’s Republic of
China obliged thoughtful Americans to take them seriously.
*Ted Koppel, ABC News*
In its dramatic narrative detail and descriptive power,
particularly of the notorious Tiananmen Square massacre, Mike
Chinoy’s China Live deserves a place alongside the great China
watching books. But it is much more than that, this stirring
personal testimony of an eyewitness reporter describes not only the
tormented maturing of China in the past two decades, but also the
rapid rise of CNN into one of the world’s most influential news
gathering organizations—a status that Mike Chinoy’s live reports
from China helped create.
*Peter Arnett, CNN*
For anyone interested in how foreign correspondents are born or in
how to unravel the enigma of China’s crypto Maoist/capitalist
revolution, Chinoy’s book is a fine place to start.
*Orville Schell, University of California, Berkeley*
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