A conversation about new media and the complex narratives surrounding the figure of the Chinese 'dissident' within the redrawn boundaries of the US-China relationship.
With Yangyang Cheng, Colin Jones, and Alison Klayman
Dr. Yangyang Cheng is a Research Scholar in Law and Fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. Her work on science and technology in China and US‒China relations has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Atlantic, The New Statesman, WIRED, VICE, MIT Technology Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications.
Colin Jones is an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at WEAI. He is a historian of East Asia and a film producer, whose credits include Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry and a Netflix documentary feature, White Hot. He he received a doctorate from Columbia University in 2017, and was a fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt, at Harvard's Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and a Fulbright Scholar in Japan from 2013-2015.
Alison Klayman is an American filmmaker and journalist best known for her award-winning 2012 documentary Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry; the critically-acclaimed The Brink, where she took on former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon; and, most recently, White Hot.
This event is part of the Asia in Action series sponsored by WEAI.
