David Bandurski

David Bandurski is the Executive Director of the China Media Project, an independent research project studying the Chinese media landscape both within the People’s Republic of China and globally. He is also a co-founder of Decoding China, an online guide to understanding the official Chinese meaning of key terms in international relations and development cooperation. In addition to his regular writing and analysis at the China Media Project, Bandurski has been a contributor to Brookings, The New York Times, The Guardian, Index on Censorship, ChinaFile, The Diplomat, and other publications. He is the author of Dragons in Diamond Village: And Other Tales from the Back Alleys of Urbanising China, a book of reportage about urbanization in China, and co-author of Investigative Journalism in China, a book of eight cases on Chinese watchdog journalism.