Review of Ai Weiwei's photograph exhibit at New York Asia's Society and published in book form.
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A Memoir of my time working at Radio Beijing, Central Broadcasting in 1980-81
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Also refer to my author's website: www.gailpellett.com NEXT READINGS: Friday, June 17, Laurel Bookstore, downtown Oakland at 6 pm Monday, June 20, Books Inc., Palo Alto, at 7 ...
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ln the early '80s Chinese dissident artists started arriving in New York City. They were fleeing censorship and government control of art and expression. ...
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Reporting from the trenches of Radio Beijing in 1980-81, where I worked as a "foreign expert," before China's economic miracle where paper clips, xerox, working ...
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Originally published in LA Review of Books: Dec. 2, 2016 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/young-lives-new-china/#! AMERICANS ARE OFTEN highly opinionated about China, yet reveal an embarrassing ignorance about the Chinese. Alec ...
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See blog posting "Zhang Hongtu - Retrospective at the Queens Museum" on my author's site for "Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing, a Memoir" www.gailpellett.com November, 2015
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I have been a writer, director and producer of TV and radio documentaries, public affairs programs, radio dramatizations and news for more than thirty-five years...My ...
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This op-ed first appeared in 3 Quarks Daily on March 14, 2016; also posted on my author's site: www.gailpellett.com Along with the jaw-dropping economic and technological ...
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The blogosphere reporting news from China is abuzz this week with the story of Song Binbin, the former Red Guard – now in her 60s ...
Read MoreThis review of "Forbidden Fruit—1980 Beijing, a Memoir" appeared in both Independent Publisher and Midwest Review of Books by Karen Chutsky: "ballsy, informative...vibrant, passionate...raw diary of ...
Read More"The memoir's deepest reward is its excavation of China's revolutionary process...and the assumptions, illusions and merits of Pellett's own political formation...(along with Pellett's) rich descriptions ...
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An interview with graduate journalism students at the People's Daily School of Journalism about love, romance, sex and marriage in 1980.
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Ninety min doc - including stories and comments by scholars about the meaning and motifs of myths and legends - part of The ...
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