Qian Gang

Qian Gang is a Chinese non-fiction writer and journalist from Hangzhou in Zhejiang Province, China who over four decades has written hundreds of articles and dozens of books.

Life

In 1969 Qian joined the People's Liberation Army and was stationed in Shanghai, where he served as an officer and a reporter for the PLA Daily. In 1976 Qian took part in the relief effort following the 1976 Tangshan earthquake, an event that deeply affected him and the subject of many of his later works. Since 1979 he has been a member of China Association of Journalists, including serving as its director. He was also involved in the founding of the periodicals China Disaster Report, Life Week, and the CCTV program News Probe. In 1984 Gang enrolled in the People's [Liberation Army College of Art] in Beijing and upon graduation in 1986 he became a journalist at the PLA Daily. From 1998 to 2001 he served as deputy editor of the Guangzhou-based newspaper Southern Weekend.
Qian is a member of the China Writers Association. Currently he serves as Director of the China Media Project at The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and [Media Studies Center] and is a research fellow at Shanghai University's Peace and Development Research Center.

Works

From 1981 to 1984 Qian coauthored with Jiang Yonghong the "Blue Army Commander" and "Rushes to the Forefront", works that won the second and third prize for National Excellent Reporting. In 1986 he published "The Great Tangshan Earthquake", a work based on his university thesis. The book again won national accolades and was translated into English, Japanese, Korean, and French. Qian's other works include "Journal of the Qing American Education Mission", coauthored with Hu Supergrass; "The Qing Navy and Li Hongzhang" , "Record of Twentieth Century Disasters in China", "Old News Reporter", "Chinese Media and Political Reform", "The Media situation in China Recorded", coauthored with Chen Wanying.