James Mann is an American journalist, and senior writer-in-residence at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

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Life

He graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

 with a B.A. in sociology.
He worked for The Washington Post, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
He served as Chief of the Beijing Bureau of the Los Angeles Times from 1984 to 1989.

His work appeared in The New Republic, and Atlantic Monthly.

Awards

• 1993; 1999 Edwin M. Hood Award for diplomatic correspondence, by the National Press Club
  National Press Club
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• 1997 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
  Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting
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• 1999 Edward Weintal Prize for diplomatic reporting
• 1999 Edward Weintal Prize
• 2005 Berlin Prize
  Berlin Prize
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Works

; reprint Westview Press, 1997, ISBN 9780813333274

• About Face: A History of America's Curious Relationship With China From Nixon to Clinton, Alfred Knopf, 1999, ISBN 9780679450535; reprint Penguin Books, 2008, ISBN 9780143112921

External links

• Author's website
• Interview with Mann on "New Books in History."
• James Mann discusses his book The China Fantasy as part of the University of Chicago's World Beyond the Headlines Series.
• "James Mann", Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley
• http://www.paulagordon.com/shows2/mann/index.html