Lingling Wei’s grandfather was an aide to Mao Zedong for 13 years. She went off to study journalism at Fudan University and New York University and returned home to China as a foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Until the Chinese government expelled her.

Lingling discussed her new book, Superpower Showdown, with us last summer.

Watch Assignment: China, our documentary series on the history of American journalists working in China.

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