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John Pomfret 算是记者中的"中国问题"专家了吧。严格的说这篇文章应该是博文。"Pomfret's China"是John Pomfret就中国问题发表看法的博客 (http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/postglobal/pomfretschina/)。
他写过一篇"丑陋的中国人"(http://newsweek.washingtonpost.c ... e_ugly_chinese.html),引发读者大量的讨论 (871条留言)。
该作者另外一篇文章翻译如下
【08.10.07 华盛顿邮报】关塔那摩的维吾尔人胜利了
http://bbs.m4.cn/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=106226&highlight=%2Brlsrls08
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维基百科的介绍
John Pomfret is a liberal American journalist and writer. He was bornin Milwaukee, Wisconsin and raised in New York. He attended StanfordUniversity, receiving his B.A. and M.A. in East Asian Studies. In 1980,he was one of the first American students to go to China and study atNanjing University. Between 1983 and 1984 he attended Singapore’sInstitute of Southeast Asian Studies as a Fulbright Scholar,researching the Cambodian conflict.
He started his journalistic career at the Stanford Daily as aphotographer, from where he was fired. After that he worked at anewspaper in Riverside County, California, and after a year was hiredby Associated Press to work in New York, covering the graveyard shift.
After two years with the AP in New York, in 1988, he was sent to Chinaas a foreign correspondent, thanks to his knowledge of Mandarin andAsian studies background. After that, he worked in several countries,including Bosnia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Zaire, SriLanka, Afghanistan, Iraq, Turkey and Iran. For over 15 years he coveredthe armed conflicts in these countries and the politics of thepost-Cold War era. Currently, he is the editor of the Washington Post'sweekend opinion section, Outlook.
During his career, he received several awards, including 2003's OsborneElliot Prize for the best coverage of Asia by the Asia Society and2007's Shorenstein Prize for coverage of Asia.
The experiences he had when he attended Nanjing University, and hisperspective of the Chinese opening, are narrated in his 2006 book"Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China."
He speaks, reads and writes Mandarin, and also speaks French, Japaneseand Serbo-Croatian. He lives near Washington, D.C., with his wife andfamily.
John Pomfret是一个自由派美国记者和作家。他出生在威斯康星州密尔沃基市,在纽约长大。他从斯坦福大学获得东亚研究学士和硕士学位。1980年,他是第一批去中国南京大学学习的美国学生之一。1983年和1984年,他作为富布赖特学入读新加坡东南亚研究所,研究柬埔寨冲突。
他的新闻生涯斯始于担任斯坦福日报一个摄影师,然后他被解雇。之后,他在加州河边郡一家报纸工作,一年后受雇于美联社,在纽约上夜班。
两年后,1988年,由于他会国语和具有亚洲研究的背景,他被作为美联社通讯员派往中国。在这之后,他在几个国家工作过,包括波斯尼亚,刚果民主共和国,卢旺达,扎伊尔,斯里兰卡,阿富汗,伊拉克,土耳其和伊朗。在过去的15年里,他报道了这些国家的武装冲突,和冷战后时代的政治。目前,他是华盛顿邮报的一个编辑,负责"周末意见和展望"栏目。
在其职业生涯中,他获得多个奖项,包括2003年的奥斯本艾略特奖和2007年的斯坦奖。得奖的原因都是对于亚洲的报道。
他2006年的著作“中国教訓:五位同学和新中国的故事。 ”描述了就读南京大学的经历,和他对中国开放的看法。
他说,读和写国语,也讲法语,日语和塞尔维亚克罗地亚语。他与他的妻子和家人住在华盛顿特区。 |
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