James Griffiths

James Griffiths is an experienced foreign correspondent and writer. He has reported from across Asia, including Hong Kong, China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and South Korea. He is the author of The Great Firewall Of China: How To Build And Control An Alternative Version Of The Internet (Zed Books, 2019) and the upcoming Speak Not: Empire, identity and the politics of language (Zed Books, 2021). James is currently a senior producer at CNN International. Before that he was an editor at the South China Morning Post, and a China-based contributor to The Atlantic, Global Post, Shanghaiist, That’s Shanghai, and the Daily Beast. He lives in Hong Kong. Twitter @jgriffiths