China Lunchtime Seminar
The lunchtime seminar series offers an informal venue for visiting academics and practitioners to present their expertise on China-related issues to the Fairbank Center community.


Tuesday October 20, 2009 12:15 pm

China-Watching Then and Now
Lynne Joiner, Journalist

Lynne Joiner is the author of Honorable Survivor: Mao’s China, McCarthy’s America and the Persecution of John S. Service. In discussing the life and times of diplomat John Service, Ms. Joiner will point out the important resonances for current foreign policy challenges in countries like Afghanistan and for US-China-Taiwan relations, as well as for the civil liberties of all Americans. She will also offer comments on changes in China she has witnessed since making her first film in China in 1976, and she will show historic photographs from the era when World War II was ending, the Cold War was dawning, and the McCarthy witch-hunters were stirring.

Lynne Joiner is an Emmy award–winning broadcast journalist, news anchor, and documentary filmmaker. Her work has included assignments for ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, NPR, PBS, and Christian Science Monitor Radio. Ms. Joiner also contributed stories to the Far Eastern Economic Review, San Francisco Chronicle, and Pacific News Service. She covered many major events in US–China relations—from reporting on Premier Zhou Enlai’s death in 1976 to Deng Xiaoping’s historic 1979 visit to Washington, DC, and the Hong Kong “handover” in 1997. She is currently a media consultant for Shanghai International TV Channel (ICS-TV). Ms. Joiner has an MA in broadcast journalism from UCLA and received her BA in English literature from Cornell University.

Location: CGIS South, Room S153
1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA
Contact: lkluz@fas.harvard.edu