The East is Read locates, summarizes, contextualizes, and translates Chinese articles, speeches, and policy documents from Chinese mainland sources. The newsletter is hosted at the Center for China and Globalization (CCG), a leading non-government thinktank in Beijing that takes no position on issues raised in the newsletter.
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Mr. Zichen Wang has been the Editor of these newsletters since their founding. After growing up in China and earning a bachelor’s degree from Shandong Economic University (now Shandong University of Finance and Economics) in July 2011, he worked for 11 years at Xinhua News Agency, including two and a half years as its European Union correspondent in Brussels.
He joined CCG full-time in October 2022 after leaving Xinhua.
Since July 2024, he has been a student at the mid-career Master in Public Policy (MPP) program at the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), Princeton University, fully funded by an SPIA fellowship.
Read The Wire China’s interview with Zichen Wang in May 2024.
Ms. Yuxuan Jia has been the Associate Editor of The East is Read and CCG Update since July 2023, when she joined CCG after graduating from Beijing Foreign Studies University with a bachelor’s degree.
Founded and led by Henry Huiyao Wang and Mable Lu Miao, CCG has been granted the official special consultative status by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC) as a “non-governmental organization.” In the 2020 Global Go To Think Tank Index by the University of Pennsylvania Think Tank and Civil Society Program (TTCSP), CCG ranked among the top think tanks worldwide and the top 50 “best independent think tanks,” rivaling China’s state think tanks.
CCG has been recognized as a “4A non-governmental organization” by the Beijing Municipal Government Civil Affairs Department.
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