Reflections on Character Interviews - 50 Tips on Writing and Reporting Experiences

Author: Zhang Xijie
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: This book integrates news works, reporting styles, and critiques, making it an essential read for news enthusiasts, the author, and researchers. It vividly portrays the new figures and moving stories that emerged from various fronts since the reform, presenting an unrhymed epic that reflects the vibrant and colorful landscape of character reporting in the new era. The book documents individuals ranging from the busy national leaders like the President and Premier, provincial party secretaries, and governors, to the ordinary farmers and grassroots cadres toiling on the land year after year. It includes overseas students who returned to serve their motherland despite advanced research conditions and material benefits abroad, as well as the elderly Red Army soldiers and the mother of the Hebei Zhong people who sacrificed their lives for the founding of the republic. There are also heroes who dared to stand up against authority and bureaucraticism to protect national finances, and public servants who silently devoted themselves to serving the people on ordinary jobs. The book features both women deeply in love and a model husband who lovingly cared for his paralyzed wife for twenty-five years.
The author has worked in grassroots positions (including reporter stations), in newspaper editorial departments, and in Beijing’s "Red Wall" for over ten years each, a unique experience that gives his works a profound foundation in life and a strong emotional impact. His writing style is distinctive—sometimes rustic to the core, sometimes so beautiful it takes one’s breath away. Whether from the perspective of interviewing or writing, it serves as a "doorbuster" for aspiring writers; at the same time, it is an invaluable teaching material for news researchers and educators.