$31.44
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2021
Summary
‘People abroad always thought things were much scarier in China than they really were. What threw me, though, was the urgency of the diplomats in Beijing. They live it, they get it. And they wanted me out.’
Bill Birtles was rushed out of China in September 2020, forced to seek refuge in the Australian Embassy in Beijing while diplomats delicately negotiated his departure in an unprecedented standoff with China’s government. Five days later he was on a flight back to Sydney, leaving Ch…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760879860 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176087986X |
| Author: | Bill Birtles |
| Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
| Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2021 |
| Weight: | 480g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 155mm x 237mm |
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- Bill Birtles, the last Australian Broadcasting Company correspondent with China (2015-2020), was expelled from the country in September 2020
- The book begins the day of his expulsion
- He was visited by state security officials in the middle of the night as Australian diplomats warned him to get out of the country. He sought refuge in the Australian embassy during a tense stand-off.
- Covers the Hong Kong protests
Bill Birtles
Bill Birtles was the ABC’s China correspondent in Beijing from 2015 to 2020. His posting came to a sudden end when he was rushed out of the country by Australian diplomats in an unprecedented diplomatic standoff.
Reporting from both major cities and remote provinces throughout the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, he covered an era-defining period of change, upheaval, and diplomatic tension as China asserted itself on the world stage.
Originally from Sydney, Birtles first studied Mandarin in the Chinese capital and later worked inside the government’s most important state media and propaganda organ, the Xinhua newsagency, before returning to Beijing for the ABC.
He is now covering South-East Asia as the ABC’s Indonesia Bureau Chief, based in Jakarta.
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