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...confident that the book will find a mainstream Western audience, and believes that foreigners may even "be able to understand the point I am trying to make about freedom and independence better than many Chinese." Perhaps his faith in Western civilization - he names Jack London's White Fang as his favorite novel - is a vehement reaction to everything that modern China has done to him. Jiang says that one of the reasons he went to Mongolia in 1967 was because its remoteness would allow him to bring along banned "bourgeois" literature, impossible to possess almost anywhere else in China...
...were trying to blend in and interview people and do your job,” Fang said. “A lot of people thought I was an Afghan pilgrim...
...Fang said that there was a time when she could travel freely around Baghdad, take Arabic lessons at the home of an Iraqi woman, and talk to civilians under protection of her abaya...
...violence escalated, communication between Westerners and Iraqis put both journalists and their sources at risk, said Fang, who is now the diplomatic correspondent for the Chicago Tribune...
...reward of “really trying to delve into people’s lives” became harder and harder to attain, according to Fang...