Joanna
Chiu
Joanna Chiu is a senior journalist for the Toronto Star and an internationally recognized authority on China. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and Newsweek. Chui is a frequent contributor to CBC, BBC World, Al Jazeera, and NPR and has worked as a foreign correspondent for top news agencies including Agence France-Presse, Deutsche Presse-Agentur, and the Associated Press. In 2012, she won a Human Rights Press Award for her story on refugees in Hong Kong. China Unbound is her first book. Chiu lives in Vancouver.
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Shaughnessy Cohen Prize winner Joanna Chiu on China Unbound
Award History
Jury Citation
“The rise of China is the geopolitical story of the twentieth-first century, and Joanna Chiu has expertly charted the country’s efforts to extend its power around the globe. From meeting displaced Uyghurs in Istanbul and China-curious entrepreneurs in Sicily, to witnessing street protests in Hong Kong and Xi Jinping’s wooing of Vladimir Putin in Beijing, Chiu does on-the-ground reporting and adds brisk, smart analysis of China’s creeping influence in Canada and around the world. The result: China Unbound is a sweeping portrait of a rising superpower that is essential reading for any follower of Canadian politics.”
— 2022 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize Jury (Charelle Evelyn, Jacques Poitras, and Lisa Raitt)
