Hu Shuli

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Hu.

Hu Shuli (胡舒立; born 1953) is the editor-in-chief of Caixin Media, Century Weekly and China Reform. She is also the Dean of the School of Communication and Design at Sun Yat-sen University.[1]

Founder of the Chinese business and finance magazine, Caijing, Hu Shuli was the editor-in-chief for 11 years.

Life and career

Hu Shuli was born in Beijing, from a lineage of notable journalists: her grandfather, Hu Zhongchi, was a famous translator and editor at Shen Bao and his older brother Hu Yuzhi (1896–1986), "an early proponent of language reform, the use of Esperanto, and realism in literature," was involved in editing and publishing.[2] Her mother, Hu Lingsheng, was a senior editor at Workers' Daily. Her father, Cao Qifeng, had a midlevel post in a trade union.

The Cultural Revolution brought criticism to her family (her mother was placed under house arrest); Hu became a Red Guard and traveled around the country, trying to educate herself as best she could.[3] After two years she joined the People's Liberation Army, and when college classes resumed in 1978, she won entrance to the People's University of China, from which she graduated in journalism in 1982. Before Caijing, she was working as assistant editor, reporter and international editor at the Worker's Daily, China's second largest newspaper. She joined China Business Times in 1992 as international editor and became chief reporter in 1995.

She is author of several books, including New Financial Time, Reform Bears No Romance and The Scenes Behind American Newspapers. She has had the distinction of being ranked among BusinessWeek's "The Stars of Asia: 50 Leaders at the forefront of change." [4] In 2006, Hu was called one of the most powerful commentators in China by the Financial Times, and The Wall Street Journal cited her among the "Ten Women to Watch" in Asia.

She was Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford in 1994[5] . She was awarded the 2003 International Editor of the Year by the World Press Review,[6] and the 2007 Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.[7]

The US magazine Foreign Policy named her as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008,[8] alongside such names as Noam Chomsky, Umberto Eco, and Salman Rushdie.

In November 2009, Hu Shuli resigned from Caijing along with 90 percent of Caijing's journalists,[9] barely a few weeks after the resignation of Daphne Wu Chuanhui and nearly 70 employees from the business department.[10] Observing the situation, Diane Vacca at Women's Voices for Change quoted Chinese blogger Hecaitou: "She’s got blood on her blade, and her clothing smells of gunpowder.”[11]

The first issue of Century Weekly under the aegis of Caixin Media was published on January 4, 2010.

About Caixin Media

Established on January 11, 2009, Caixin Media Company Limited (Caixin or Caixin Media) is a media group dedicated to providing financial and business news and information through periodicals, online content, mobile apps, conferences, books, and TV/video programs. Caixin Media aims to blaze a trail that helps traditional media prosper in the new media age through integrated multimedia platforms.

Led by Hu Shuli, the editorial staff at Caixin Media is well-known for independent thinking and professional practices. They are insiders with an intimate understanding of China's economic and social transition, and sharp observers with a global vision. As firm advocators and practitioners of professional journalism, they provide high-quality, credible content, and are especially known for the investigative reporting. Caixin Media is referred to as “one of China’s more outspoken media organizations” by The Economist. [12]

As indicated in Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University’s announcement of Caixin Media winning the 2011 Shorenstein Journalism Award, “the core group of Caijing Magazine moved on in November 2009 to found Caixin Media in an effort to preserve their independence in a media environment dominated by the state in China. The company is based in Beijing and is guided by an independent advisory board of noted Chinese and foreign intellectuals and academics. The Caixin team has achieved renown for its coverage of the profound economic and social changes taking place in China and its willingness to dig into the darker corners of that change. In recent months, Caixin has probed into the errors that led to the crash of a high-speed train in China, and investigated the seizure and sale of children by family planning officials in Hunan province.” [13]

Caixin Board of Trustees

To ensure journalism independence, Caixin has set up a Board of Trustees composed of respected intellectuals and academics who are independent from Caixin’s board of directors and management, and have the final say in setting editorial principles and the appointment or dismissal of the editor-in-chief. The members of the Board include:

* Chairman of Board of Trustees

Wu Jinglian, Senior Research Fellow for the Development Research Center of the State Council

* Trustees

Bao Yujun, Research Fellow for the Counselors’ Office of the State Council
Xiao Meng, Executive Editor of Comparative Studies Magazine
Xu Hong, Professor and Executive Deputy Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University
Masahiko Aoki, Professor of Economics Emeritus at Stanford University

Caixin Products

“Caixin publishes several leading print and online publications, including the weekly business and finance magazine Caixin Century Weekly, the monthly periodical China Reform, the bimonthly journal Comparative Studies, and the English-language Caixin China Economics and Finance. Caixin’s numerous other offerings include a Chinese-and-English-language news portal Caixin.cn, a publication series, video programming, an international journalism fellowship program, and extensive use of social media.” [14]

Awards Received by Caixin

* Editorial Team

2011 Caixin reporters Ni Weifeng and Gu Yongqiang won the runners-up of "Financial/Economic Story of the Year" of Media Awards 2011 by Foreign Press Association in London
2011 Shorenstein Journalism Award by Stanford Univeristy's Walter H.Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
2011 Editor-in-Chief Hu Shuli was named as one of The TIME 100 Influential People by Time Magazine
2010&2009 Editor-in-Chief Hu Shuli was named as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy
2011 Managing Editor Wang Shuo was named as Top 10 Young Editors of Chinese Periodicals for extraordinary leadership in print and new media
2011 Photographer Niu Guang won the Second Award of Spot News of the 54th World Press Photography
2010 Reporters Liang Dongmei and Deng Hai won Runner-ups of Developing Asia Journalism Awards

* Caixin Century Weekly

2011 “What's Clogging China's Air Traffic Pipeline” (published on 11 Oct 2010) won Special Report Award by Civil Aviation Resource Net of China
2011 Caixin Century Weekly for iPad ranked Top 10 e-magazines by Apple Global App Store China users
2010 Named as the Most Popular Magazine by The Sixth Beijing International Finance Expo

* Caixin.cn

2010 Ranked the Most Valuable Website in 2010 Cyber Life List released by New Weekly

* Caixin Book Series

2011 Editorials by Shuli: Real Problems of China in Past Decade ranked Top 10 Best books released by Guangzhou Daily
2011 Double Dip by Andy Xie won Hexun Chinese Financial Book Award

* Caixin Media

2011 Annual Social Service Award by 2010 Media Development Annual Conference
2011 Named as The Best Media Partner by China Beijing Equity Exchange Group

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References

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  2. ^ Kirk A. Denton, Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945 (Stanford University Press, 1996: ISBN 0804725594), p. 500.
  3. ^ Osnos, Evan (20 July 2009). "The Forbidden Zone". The New Yorker. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/07/20/090720fa_fact_osnos/. Retrieved 2010-01-14. 
  4. ^ Clifford, Mark L. (2 July 2001). "The Stars of Asia". BusinessWeek. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/01_27/b3739042.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-14. 
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  6. ^ (Press release). Worldpress.org. 2003. http://www.worldpress.org/award2003.cfm. Retrieved 2010-01-14. 
  7. ^ (Press release). Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/NiemanFoundation/Awards/AwardsAtAGlance/LouisLyonsAwardForConscienceAndIntegrityInJournalism/Winners/HuShuli.aspx. Retrieved 2010-01-14. 
  8. ^ "The Top 100 Public Intellectuals--the Final Rankings". Foreign Policy. June 2008. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4379. Retrieved 2010-01-14. 
  9. ^ Ansfield, Jonathan (9 November 2009). "Editor Departs China Magazine After High-Profile Tussle". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/business/global/10mag.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2010-01-02. 
  10. ^ Hu Yinan (14 October 2009). "Caijing Magazine rocked by resignations". China Daily. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-10/14/content_8790938.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-02. 
  11. ^ Vacca, Diane (15 December 2009). "Journalist Flouts Beijing, Part 2: "She’s got blood on her blade and her clothing smells of gunpowder"". Women's Voices for Change. http://womensvoicesforchange.org/journalist-flouts-beijing-part-2-%E2%80%9Cshes-got-blood-on-her-blade-and-her-clothing-smells-of-gunpowder.htm/. Retrieved 2010-01-02. 
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