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When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can do is to write about it, because if I insert myself into the equation it doesn't really do much good, but if I write about it I think it could do more good.

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I grew up in New York City in the late '70s, at a time when U.S. - China relations were something that was on the front page of The New York Times on a regular basis.

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I was fourteen when Kissinger made his secret trip to China, and then there was subsequently Nixon's trip to China, and I was very much seized with an interest in China.

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And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.

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I went back to the States and started at a small newspaper in Riverside County, California, covering the police; I was making $280 a week covering the police.

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The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

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Stanford had no journalism program so I just learned by doing, effectively.

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In some ways the domestic reporting is a lot easier because Americans will talk to you about anything.

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Working overseas is more difficult in that it's much more complicated to get people to open their hearts to you and to tell you information.

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Whereas with foreign coverage there's a much broader disconnect between you and your audience.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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