Barclay Bram is a Junior Fellow on Chinese Society at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. He received his D.Phil. from Oxford University’s School of Global and Area Studies. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork in China in 2018-2019 on mental health and psychological counselling. Bram is also an audio producer at The Economist, and was a member of the team that made The Prince. He has also written widely as an essayist and journalist. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, The London Review of Books, Wired, and Granta.
Last Updated: November 18, 2022
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