This week on Sinica, Kaiser and Jeremy were live in London with a very special guest: Carrie Gracie, whose career with the BBC spanned three decades as a China-based correspondent, news presenter, and China editor. She talks about her podcast series on the Bo Xilai scandal, her longitudinal documentary series on White Horse Village, and her struggle with the BBC to win equal pay for women.
6:02 – Murder in the Lucky Holiday Hotel and Carrie’s coverage of the Bo Xilai scandal and Chinese elite politics in 2012
11:38 – Overview of the main characters: Bo Xilai, Gu Kuilai, Neil Heywood, and Wang Lijun
35:18 – How the 2012 power struggle shaped Xi Jinping’s leadership style
41:42 – Carrie’s key takeaways from following the Bo Xilai case
44:33 – White Horse Village: documenting life of farmers across a decade in rural China
50:56 – Changing conditions for foreign journalists in China
56:52 – Advice to reporters starting in China
1:01:05 – Assessing media organizations’ progress on dismantling the gender pay gap
A transcript of this episode is available at TheChinaProject.com.
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Carrie: Everything Everywhere All at Once; the Disney animated film Mulan
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