China Brief

on February 8, 2014

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China Brief is a primary source of timely information and cutting-edge analysis for policy-makers, intelligence and military personnel, academics, journalists, and business leaders. It is published under the direction of Dr. Arthur Waldron at the University of Pennsylvania and is edited by Peter Wood. In addition to its audience in the United States, China Brief is widely-read in East Asia, where articles are regularly translated and reprinted in leading newspapers, journals and websites. Through the use of indigenous sources and detailed and objective analysis, China Brief keeps U.S. public and private sector decision-makers alike informed of developments and trends in China. Writers include Senior Fellow Willy Wo-Lap Lam, Fellow Peter Mattis, Dennis Blasko, Wenran Jiang and other experts, many of whom are based in Asia.

Peter Hessler

on February 7, 2014

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he served as Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007, Cairo correspondent from 2011 to 2016, and Chengdu correspondent from 2019 to 2021. He is the author of The Buried; River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize; Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; Country Driving; and Strange Stones. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for excellence in reporting, and he was named a MacArthur fellow in 2011.

Michael Meyer

on February 7, 2014

Michael Meyer first went to China in 1995 with the Peace Corps. As the author of the acclaimed The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed, he received a Whiting Writers’ Award for nonfiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has also won a Lowell Thomas Award from the Society of American Travel Writers. Meyer’s stories have appeared in The New York Times, Time, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Slate, the Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and on This American Life. Meyer teaches nonfiction writing at the University of Pittsburgh and spends the off-season in Singapore. His newest book, In Manchuria: A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China, will be published on February 17, 2015.