Selections from Ching-ching Ni (Los Angeles Times)

[Anonymous]

I just read Ching-ching Ni's memoir piece about growing up in China, leaving, and returning right before the Olympics. What she touches on -- the Communists' rule, the re-education of her mother and grandfather in the country because they were college grads and deemed "elite", her childhood experience of being trained as a potential athlete to bestow fame on the country (she dropped out), and how a teacher "tricked" her to snitch on her mother's anti-government behavior -- helps put the 20th century China story into place. On her return visit, Ni compares the block housing, only 1 outfit per year, limited food choices of her youth with the Starbucks, automobiles, Gymboree of present-day Beijing. She tells it all with truth but no bitterness. She promises to return frequently and share her heritage with her children.

[Anonymous]

Ms. Ching-ching Ni I have already told many of my students about the kids you told us about living in the caves.

[Rob_Hugo@PortNW]

Ching-Ching Ni covered China for the Los Angeles Times for nearly a decade based in Shanghai and Beijing. She returned to the states in 2008 as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and continued to write about China’s impact on America through the fast growing Chinese American community. She is currently working on a book about journeying between China and America.

Ching-ching shared her stories with our educators on Saturday, 4/21 for our "Covering China" workshop. Below is a selection of her news stories.
Ching-ching Ni's favorites:

In China, a Light in the Cave
August 01, 2002|CHING-CHING NI | TIMES STAFF WRITER
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/aug/01/world/fg-caves1

THE WORLD | COLUMN ONE
Economic change has driven a move to cities -- and lives built around construction work and prostitution. Money and comforts are sparse.
October 07, 2003|Ching-Ching Ni | Times Staff Writer
http://articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/07/world/fg-tibet7

COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING
A Times reporter who returned to her native Beijing found a city, and a nation, transformed
August 03, 2008|Ching-Ching Ni | Times Staff Writer
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/aug/03/world/fg-beijingborn3

Other stories written by Ching-ching:
A Chinese American immigration secret emerges from the dark days of discrimination
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/24/local/la-me-paper-son24-2010jan24

Fresh Faces in the Sky
http://english.cri.cn/2946/2007/11/26/[email protected]

Changing Channels in China
http://bbs.chinadaily.com.cn/thread-4135-1-1.html

Town Loses Hyperlink to Future
http://articles.latimes.com/2005/oct/06/world/fg-internetvillage6

China's Clash of Cultures in Cyberspace
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/mar/28/world/fg-spoof28

China keeps Tibet closed
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-foreign13apr13,0,3584887.story

In Beijing, ultramodern living for Olympians
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-village6mar06,0,3983142.story

The challenge of keeping China kosher
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-kosher5feb05,0,4101537.story

'If virus doesn't kill you, fear might'
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/bal-sars0425,0,422287.story

Saving his best for laughs
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/08/local/la-me-joe-wong-20110708

China-Taiwan rivalry causes headaches for leaders of Los Angeles' Chinese community
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jan/23/local/la-me-taiwan-china-20110113

Man recruited fake army in immigration scam, prosecutors say
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/13/local/la-me-04-13-fake-army-20110413

Lawyers for man accused of raising fake army say group was a charity
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/13/local/la-me-0414-fake-army-20110414

Officials remind U.S. public that the military doesn't charge for joining
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/19/local/la-me-0419-fake-army-20110419
edited by yhuang on 4/26/2012

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