Hamish McDonald

Hamish McDonald is a print journalist and author of several books.^[1] He also holds a fellowship at the American think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.^[2]

Career

McDonald has been working as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms.^[2] He was also the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.^[1]

In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article What's Wrong With Falun Gong, which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China.^[3][4]

Books

• Suharto's Indonesia, 1980^[1]

• The Polyester Prince, 1998: This unauthorized biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print in India after the publishers were threatened with legal action by the Ambani family.^[5]

• Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, 2001: Co-authored with Desmond Ball^[1]

• Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military & Violence in East Timor in 1999, 2002^[1]

• Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud, 2010:^[6] The book was published in India as Ambani and Sons.^{[7] [5][8]}

• Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century, St. Martin's Press, 2015

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Hamish McDonald". The Age. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Hamish McDonald". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
3. ↑ "Age staff win journalism's top awards". The Age. 2 December 2005. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
4. ↑ "What's wrong with Falun Gong". The Age. 16 October 2004. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "The return of The Polyester Prince". Business Standard. 2 October 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
6. ↑ "A Durable Yarn". The Economist. 4 November 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
7. ↑ Veena Venugopal (23 September 2010). "Hamish McDonald | The Reliance split is good for India". Live Mint. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 
8. ↑ "Cream Weaver". Outlook India. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 20 February 2014. 

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