Josh Chin and John Delury on ‘American Spies and Chinese Surveillance’
January 17, 2023 – Do you have the feeling that you are constantly being watched or worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home? Surveillance State: Inside China's Quest to Launch a New Era of Social Control by Josh Chin and Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China by John Delury creatively tackles this issue by exploring the intricate stories of American spies and Chinese surveillance.
For Asia Society Korea’s first in-person Meet the Authors event of 2023, Josh Chin, Deputy China Bureau Chief at The Wall Street Journal, and John Delury, Professor at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies, discuss the truth behind decades of history, futuristic intelligence, and political control.
Josh Chin, Deputy China Bureau Chief, The Wall Street Journal
Josh Chin is Deputy China Bureau Chief for The Wall Street Journal. He previously covered politics and tech in China as a reporter with the newspaper for more than a decade. He led an investigative team that won the Gerald Loeb Award for international reporting in 2018 for a series exposing the Chinese government’s pioneering experiments with digital surveillance.
He was named a National Fellow at New America in 2020 and is a recipient of the Dan Bolles Medal, awarded to investigative journalists who have exhibited courage in the face of intimidation. Born in Utah, he splits time between Seoul and Taiwan.
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John Delury, Professor of Chinese Studies, Yonsei University
John Delury is Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), where he serves as chair of the Program in International Cooperation. He is also chair of the undergraduate Program in International Studies at Yonsei’s Underwood International College (UIC), and founding director of the Yonsei Center on Oceania Studies.
He is the author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century, and is writing a book about US-China relations in the early Cold War. Based in Seoul since 2010, his articles can be found in journals such as Asian Survey, Late Imperial China, and Journal of Asian Studies, his commentaries appear in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, Washington Post, and 38 North, and he contributes book reviews for the quarterly journal Global Asia, where he is associate managing editor.
John is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea; he is also Pacific Century Institute board member, Asia Society senior fellow, National Committee on American Foreign Policy leadership council member, and Center on Strategic and International Studies adjunct fellow. He is a member of the Republic of Ireland’s foreign affairs advisory network and is invited to offer his analysis on East Asian affairs with government, think tank, corporate, and civil society organizations globally.
Professor Delury received his Ph.D. in History from Yale University.
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