Editor’s note for Tuesday, September 8, 2020
A note from the editor of today's The China Project Access newsletter.
My thoughts today:
โHow my mother and I became Chinese propagandaโย is a personal essay in the New Yorker by Jiayang Fanย that is really worth a read.ย Pair it with this less tortured piece in the New Yorker by Peter Hessler โ How China controlled the coronavirusย โ and this extremely salty rebuke of Hessler from scholar Geremie Barmรฉ.
A quick takeaway from these three pieces: It is very difficult to write about China these days.
Harbor from the Holocaust is a documentary film that will be screened on PBS tonight at 10 p.m. New York Time and then available for streaming. Itโs about the story of aroundย 20,000 Jewish refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II and found refuge in Shanghai. ย
A sign of the times:ย A defunct leftist magazine launched in 1988 and subsequently shut down for its criticism of former president and Communist Party head Jiฤng Zรฉmรญn ๆฑๆณฝๆฐ appears to have been revived, with support from some of Chinaโs leading apologists for the Party’s worst excesses. China Media Project has details.
Our word of the dayย is outrageously firing warning shotsย (ๆ็ถ้ธฃๆชๅจ่ hร nrรกn mรญng qiฤng wฤixiรฉ). See our top storyย for details.
โJeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief
