China Unbound: A New World Disorder

While the United States stumbles, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles China's dramatic moves to become the world's dominant power.

As the second-largest economy, China is now extending its influence across the globe. Joanna Chiu has spent a decade tracking China's propulsive rise, from the complicity of democratic nations, to a new colonialism coming from its multibillion-dollar "New Silk Road" initiative, to its growing sway on foreign countries and multilateral institutions. Chiu transports readers to protests in Hong Kong, underground churches in Beijing, and exile Uighur communities in Turkey, exposing Beijing's use of high-tech police surveillance and aggressive human rights violations against those who challenge its power. With increasingly close ties between authoritarian states, the new world order documented in China Unbound lays out the disturbing implications for prosperity and freedom everywhere.

Author: Joanna Chiu
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 09/28/2021
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781487007676

About the Author
Chiu, Joanna: -

JOANNA CHIU is an internationally recognized authority on China, whose work has appeared in the Guardian, Foreign Policy, BBC World, The Atlantic, Newsweek, Quartz, Al Jazeera, GlobalPost, CBC, and NPR. For seven years she was based in China as a foreign correspondent, reporting for top news agencies such as Agence France Presse (AFP) and Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), and in Hong Kong, she reported for the South China Morning Post, The Economist, and Associated Press (AP). In 2012 her story on refugees in Hong Kong won a Human Rights Press Award, and in 2018 her report on #MeToo cases in Asia was named one of the best Foreign Policy long-form stories. Chiu was the recipient of the 2020 Canadian Ethnic Media Association award in the Print category for her coverage of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic. She is the founder and chair of the NüVoices editorial collective, which celebrates the creative and academic work of women working on the subject of China. She is currently a senior journalist for the Toronto Star, Canada's largest newspaper, and has previously served as bureau chief of the Star Vancouver. She has more than 47,000 followers on Twitter, and her account typically drives tens of thousands of views to her stories, with her threads having gone viral numerous times. She also speaks frequently at major events and conferences.