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The Challenge of Covering a Fast-Changing China: A Dialog with Rob Schmitz of American Public Media’s Marketplace (Moderated by Jeffrey Wasserstrom)

How is China’s economy changing and how is this affecting its people and the world? What are the biggest obstacles and most exciting aspects of reporting on this increasingly important topic? These are the kinds of issues to be discussed in a conversation between Jeffrey Wasserstrom, the Chair of UCI’s History Department and the co-founder of the “China Beat” blog, and Rob Schmitz, APM Marketplace’s China correspondent, who along with covering a host of important stories, related to everything from labor rights to education to the rise of consumerism, played the key role in exposing the fabrications in Mike Daisey’s account of Foxconn factories on This American Life and then was featured in that show’s much-discussed retraction episode.