Title
Shibani Mahtani & Timothy McLaughlin: Among the Braves
Abstract
The Wisconsin Book Festival and the UW-Madison Center for East Asian Studies were delighted to present Shibani Mahtani & Timothy McLaughlin, two award winning journalists, for a book talk on their latest work, Among the Braves.
In the book, Mahtani and McLaughlin present a gripping narrative history of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement centered around a cast of core activists, culminating in the 2019 mass protests and Beijing’s brutal crackdown. They tell the story of Hong Kong’s past, and what the sacrifices of its people mean for global democracy’s shaky foundation.
In a conversation moderated by CEAS faculty Prof. Zhongdang Pan, they discussed their process collecting materials and conducting interviews for the book.
Biography
Shibani Mahtani is an international investigative correspondent for the Washington Post. She was previously the Post’s Hong Kong and Southeast Asia bureau chief and a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal based in Singapore, Yangon, and Chicago.
Timothy McLaughlin is a prize-winning contributing writer for The Atlantic. Previously he worked for Reuters news agency. His work has also appeared in publications including WIRED, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and Prospect.