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Speakers:
Melissa Chan, journalist, producer, and author
Badiucao, artist and activist
Moderator:
Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Columbia University
From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and international activist artist Badiucao comes a near-future dystopian graphic novel about the lengths that one will go to in the fight for freedom. YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION is set in a world where a fascist United States and a techno-authoritarian China are at war, with the story moving between locations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and beyond.
The authors distill their years of personal experience with authoritarianism into a 260+ page comics format — a deliberate choice to be unconventional, creative, and impactful. As members of the Chinese-speaking diaspora though from widely divergent backgrounds, Badiucao and Chan reflect on their work and what they think about aspects of Chinese society and government policy today.
Speakers' Bios:
Melissa Chan is an Emmy-nominated Hong Kong and Taiwanese American foreign correspondent based between Los Angeles and Berlin. She was previously posted in China until she became the first journalist in more than a decade to be expelled by Chinese authorities in 2012. Much of her reporting examines human rights, the rise of global authoritarianism, and the defense of democracies. Her work has taken her from Pyongyang to Moscow to Havana. She has written for the New York Times, where she was nominated for a Loeb Award—business journalism’s highest honor—and The Atlantic, the Washington Post, Time, the Guardian, and more. As a broadcast correspondent, she has reported for VICE News Tonight and Al Jazeera. This is her debut graphic novel.
Badiucao is a Chinese Australian artist, activist, and political provocateur. One of the most popular and prolific creatives from China, he confronts a variety of social and political issues in his work, often using satire to tackle censorship, authoritarianism, and capitalism. He has exhibited in the U.S., Australia, and throughout Europe. He has been interviewed by the Washington Post, the Guardian, Time, CNN, NBC, and others, and was profiled by the New York Times and CBS News’s 60 Minutes. In 2020, Badiucao won the Human Rights Foundation’s Václav Havel International Prize for Creative Dissent. He currently lives in exile in Australia. This is his debut graphic novel.
This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.
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