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Philip P. Pan (born 20th century) is an American
journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
, author, and International Editor at ''
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.'' He previously worked as bureau chief in Moscow and Beijing for ''
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''.


Early life

Pan was born and raised in New Jersey. He is the son of immigrants from Taiwan.


Career

He won the
Arthur Ross Book Award The Arthur Ross Book Award is a politics-related literary award. History and administration It was endowed in 2001 by Arthur Ross, an American businessman and philanthropist, for the purpose of recognizing books that make an outstanding cont ...
Gold Medal in 2009 for his bestselling book about political change in modern China, '' Out of Mao's Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China'', which was also named a Best Book of 2008 by ''
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'' and ''
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''. ''
The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...
'' literary critic Michiko Kakutani wrote that the book possessed "both the immediacy of first-rate reportage and the emotional depth of field of a novel". Pan was formerly a reporter for ''The Washington Post'' and headed its Beijing and Moscow bureaus. He also received the 2002
Livingston Award The Livingston Awards at the University of Michigan are American journalism awards issued to media professionals under the age of 35 for local, national, and international reporting. They are the largest, all-media, general reporting prizes in Ame ...
for International Reporting for his articles about labor conditions in China, and an Overseas Press Club award and the
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Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia for stories about Chinese-style authoritarianism. He started his career working at the ''Post'''s Metro Desk "covering crime, education and immigration policy" after graduating from
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with a bachelor's in government in 1995. He was managing editor for ''
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'' and freelanced for ''
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'', and interned with the ''
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'', ''
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'' and '' The Jersey Journal''. He joined the ''The Washington'' ''Posts
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bureau in 2000. Pan's book profiles a dozen individuals caught in the struggle over China's political future, including a filmmaker trying to uncover the truth about the execution of a young woman named
Lin Zhao Lin Zhao (; 23 January 1932 – 29 April 1968), born Peng Lingzhao (), was a prominent Chinese dissident who was imprisoned and later executed by the People's Republic of China during the Cultural Revolution for her criticism of Mao Zedong's ...
during the
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, an elderly surgeon named
Jiang Yanyong Jiang Yanyong (born October 4, 1931) is a Chinese physician who publicized a coverup of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic in Mainland China. Born into the Zhejiang Xingye Bank family, Jiang was the chief physician of the 3 ...
who blew the whistle on China's cover-up of the epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome, and a blind rural activist named Chen Guangcheng who was jailed after trying to stop a campaign of
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and sterilization in his village. Other topics covered by his book include China's ''
shourong Custody and repatriation (C&R; ) was an administrative procedure, established in 1982 and abolished in 2003, by which the police in the People's Republic of China (usually cities) could detain people if they did not have a residence permit (hukou ...
'' detention system, investigative journalism in China, and the publication and reception of ''An Investigation of China's Peasantry'', by
Chen Guidi Chen Guidi (陳桂棣; born November 1942) is a Chinese writer from Huaiyuan county, Anhui. The book ''A Survey of the Chinese Peasants'' (中国农民调查 / 中國農民調查 Zhōngguó Nóngmín Diàochá) which he co-wrote with his wife Wu C ...
and
Wu Chuntao Wu Chuntao () is a Chinese author and journalist best known for co-authoring the award-winning ''Will the Boat Sink the Water'' (also known as ''A Survey of Chinese Peasants'') with her husband, Chen Guidi. Born into a peasant family in rural Huna ...
, which was later released as ''
Will the Boat Sink the Water ''Will the Boat Sink the Water?:The Life of China's Peasants,'' is a 2006 non-fiction book authored by husband and wife team Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao. It is the English translation of ''Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha'' (中国农民调查, "An Inves ...
'' (2006) in its English translation. After leaving ''The Post'', Pan joined ''The New York Times'' as Beijing bureau chief and assistant foreign editor in 2011 He helped launch the newspaper's Chinese-language website, its first online edition in a foreign language. On September 22, 2022, ''The New York Times'' announced Pan as its International Editor.


Personal life

Pan is a graduate of
Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...
. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife and children.


See also

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List of American print journalists This is a list of selected American print journalists, including some of the more notable figures of 20th-century newspaper and magazine journalism. 19th-century print journalists * M. E. C. Bates (1839–1905) – writer, journalist, newspaper ed ...
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pan, Philip 20th-century births 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American political journalists American expatriates in Hong Kong American expatriates in Russia The Harvard Crimson people Living people People's Republic of China historians The Washington Post journalists Journalists from Washington, D.C. Year of birth missing (living people) Livingston Award winners for International Reporting