Lauren Hilgers is a journalist and the author of Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown.

“You just need to spend a lot of time with people. And it’s awkward. I read something when I was first starting out as a journalist in China, ‘Make a discipline out of being uncomfortable.’ I think that’s very helpful. You’re going to feel uncomfortable a lot of the time, and just decide to be okay with it and just keep going with it.”

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Hilgers on Longform

[01:10] "The Kitchen Network" (The New Yorker • Oct 2014)

[02:00] Patriot Number One: American Dreams in Chinatown (Crown • 2018)

[39:55] "The Unraveling of Bo Xilai" (Harper’s Magazine • March 2013)

 

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