Barbara Demick
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Barbara Demick
@BarbaraDemick
AUTHOR: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town; Nothing to Envy (N. Korea),Logavina Street (Bosnia)
New York, USA Katılım Mart 2009
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Together with @JanePerlez on Faceoff. This episode about identical twins, one Chinese and one American, and what they teach us about nationality and identity. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sto…
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Is Jeff Bezos deliberately sabotaging the Washington Post? I can understand reining in critical coverage of Trump, of course he's scared, but he could have preserved his dignity and the newspaper by funding sports and foreign.
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.. And as @RuthMarcus points out, he could easily afford to swallow the Post's losses-- at the current rate for 2,000 years. newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
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A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
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Please, we need the Washington Post's foreign correspondents. And despite all, I never cancelled my subscription. And advised others not to as well.
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Iceland v. Greenland. Guidance from Robert Altman's The Player (1992)
June: Greenland's very icy. Iceland's very green. They switched names to fool the Vikings who tried to steal their women.
Griffin Mill: Oh, I see.
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Tank man 2026. Yes, it a digital creation but there is a certain underlying truth.
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My article about an adoptee who grew up thinking she'd been abandoned by her Chinese family. When it ran in May, it went viral (7 million views on Tiktok) and it was just listed among The New Yorker's best articles of 2025. newyorker.com/culture/2025-i…
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Best China Books of 2025 by @chinabksreview: great list with books by @EmilyZFeng @danwwang @evadou @PatrickMcGee_ Barbara Demick and others. I just ordered the book by Minxin Pei. Huge thanks to @vshih2 for adding me to the list
chinabooksreview.com/2025/12/18/bes…
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I wish people would stop posting this junk. It's harmful to animals-- and to people. outsideonline.com/outdoor-advent…
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A fascinating conversation with the insightful Jacob Shapiro about separated twins and what they can teach us about China and the United States. podchaser.com/podcasts/the-j…
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Please join me and my friend @BarbaraDemick tomorrow, Monday 11/17, for a zoom video talk on her gripping new book on a Chinese adoptee in Texas and her twin sister in China, “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove.” Register at the @opcofamerica site: opcofamerica.org/Eventposts/boo…
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Thank you Tom-- and the Columbia J School team that made this possible....
Tom Lowry@lowrytom
I grew up reading Barbara Demick’s work in the @PhillyInquirer So great to see this fellow @Bagehots alum and foreign correspondent honored tonite with a Welles Prize for her book “Daughters of the Bamboo Grove” that delves into China’s one-child policy. #50yearsofBagehots
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🎉 Congratulations to the @WSJ reporting team, winners of the 2025 WERT Global Prize; to @shurufu and @BarbaraDemick, this year’s Welles Prize winners and to @dmac1, a Welles finalist recognized for his outstanding reporting: journalism.columbia.edu/news/2025-wert…
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