A convergence of two anniversaries. The new yorker is celebrating its 90th this year. It was one of the First Western media to have access to china after the revolution . 1949. And of our five distinguished guest panelists tonight, one who is not a guest, our own Orville Schell, they have collectively over 100 years of observation and writing on china. And i think you will all find this very enlightening and no doubt entertaining. This includes of course our own Orville Schell whose asia societies center on u. S. China relations, arthur ross director and the founder districter. Were pleased to have janet ross here with us tonight. Hello, janet. Ive learned that orvilles first contribution to if new yorker was in the 70s. Almost whole issues on china solely devoted, quite a thing in the 70s. Ive also learned that orville with us so delighted with his first paycheck that he went and bought a tractor for his ranch in california and this was following the directive in the cultural to head
The two ballots that excluded me maryland and michigan and when i called and said, what gives . Im all the country campaigning for president of the United States. They said, our standard is who the National Media generally recognizes as a candidate. Thats what they said. You see, folks, what i have described to you is a distortion of the politics of this country. Im telling you it is becoming official in many of the states. This is wrong and it will change when i am president of the United States. But there is a way. There is a way. There ises still a way. Still a way. We can restore democracy in this country and it is the New Hampshire primary. It is still here, still a part of things. You have the power to change. You as leaders of the Republican Party of New Hampshire and people respected in your community and people will follow your leadership on this, you dont have to have your choices limited by the mass media and the national party. You can choose. You still have the right to pi
I think the question you posed maybe earlier to jiayang as what does it mane to read western reporting as a native chinese is an interesting one. For me i remember when i was able to read the the New York Times, when i read reports on china, it felt like seeing an xray of china. And what i mean by that is the bones all seemed to be in the right place, but what i had in my head with the flesh and the veins, all of that seemed it seemed all very accurate. I felt like western reporters must have done a conscientious job. This was in the early mid90s but that sense of i want macy that i felt to the country and in myself i think the warring allegiances of, i mean, keep in mind i spent first and second grade in china and was exceptionally slow as an english learner. So was very much, you know still felt very much nobody could truly with a childs sense of stubbornness, nobody can understand china the way i do. And i spent, you know, the past, i think, two decades trying to reconcile that very