Philip P. Pan (born 20th century) is an American

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, 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

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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 ''

'' and ''

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''. ''

'' literary critic

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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

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for International Reporting for his articles about labor conditions in China, and an

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award and the Osborn Elliott 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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'', '' Atlanta Journal-Constitution'' and ''

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''. 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 during the

Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution, formally known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement in the People's Republic of China (PRC) launched by Mao Zedong in 1966, and lasting until his death in 1976. Its stated goa ...

, an elderly surgeon named Jiang Yanyong who blew the whistle on China's cover-up of the epidemic of

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, and a blind rural activist named

Chen Guangcheng Chen Guangcheng (born November 12, 1971) is a Chinese civil rights activist who has worked on human rights issues in rural areas of the People's Republic of China. Blind from an early age and self-taught in the law, Chen is frequently descr ...

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'' detention system, investigative journalism in China, and the publication and reception of ''An Investigation of China's Peasantry'', by Chen Guidi and Wu Chuntao, which was later released as '' Will the Boat Sink the Water'' (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

. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife and children.

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