Jane Perlez

Jane Perlez
Education	University of Sydney(BA)
Occupation	Journalist
Organization	New York Times
Known for	Coverage of China
Awards	Pulitzer Prize

Jane Perlezis an American journalist. She was a long-time foreign correspondent forThe New York Times.She served as Beijing Bureau Chief inChinauntil 2019, where she wrote about China's role in the world, and the competition between the United States and China, particularly in Asia. Perlez arrived in Beijing in February 2012, and left in 2019.

Perlez won thePulitzer Prizein 2009 for her coverage of the war against theTalibanandal-Qaedain Pakistan and Afghanistan, a lead member of the group ofNYTreporters included in the prize for international reporting that year.

Early life and education

Born inLondon,Perlez grew up inAustraliaand graduated from theUniversity of Sydney.In 1967, she traveled to China with a group of Australian students who went for a vacation but ended up spending three weeks in the middle of theCultural Revolution.She got her first taste of the United States during anAmerican Field Servicescholarship in the mid-60s, and after three years in her first journalism job - atThe Australiannewspaper - she left Australia for New York in 1972. There she joinedThe New York Postto cover politics, leaving when Rupert Murdoch bought the newspaper in 1977. She worked briefly at theSoHo Weekly News,writing a media and political column, and then for a year-long stint, joinedThe New York Daily News.She began her career atThe New York Timesin 1981.

Career

At the start of her career as a foreign correspondent, Perlez was a Pulitzer finalist for coverage of the famine in Somalia, and the dispatch of American forces.

Perlez served as bureau chief inNairobi, Kenyafrom 1988 to 1992 when civil wars were raging inSudan,EthiopiaandSomalia.In 1993, she became bureau chief inWarsaw, Poland,writing about the emergence ofCentral Europefrom the grip of theCold War.In 1996, she moved toVienna,a base for covering the Serbian leader,Slobodan Milosevic,and his aggression against Kosovo. As Chief Diplomatic Correspondent based in Washington, Perlez traveled with Secretary of State,Madeleine K. Albright,to Asia, Europe and Africa, and covered Secretary Colin Powell during his first year in the job. In 2002, she moved toJakarta, Indonesia,where she first noted the rise of China and its impact on Southeast Asia, a series of articles that were among the first to document China's increasing influence in the region. For a series of articles on gold mining in Indonesia and in Peru, and the deleterious impact of the mining on local communities, she won the Overseas Press Club award forenvironmental reporting.

During four years based in Islamabad, Pakistan, Perlez wrote about the rising tensions between the United States and Pakistan, and the deep underlying differences between the two countries that were officially allies in the war on terror. Her articles included reporting on theInter Services Intelligenceand the Pakistani army, as well as on the Taliban, and their ability to strike at the core of Pakistan's institutions. Several articles highlighted the involvement of the Pakistani army and intelligence service in extrajudicial killings, including the murder of a Pakistani journalist in 2011. During her seven years in Beijing, Perlez covered Xi Jinping's growing power at home and abroad. Her stories for the New York Times included coverage of Xi's visit to the United States in 2015; his creation of theBelt and Road Initiative;the program MADE IN CHINA 2025; and AAIB. She hosted a podcast about Xi's rise for the Shorenstein Center at Harvard University. In 2022, she hosted a podcast series titled The Great Wager,about how Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger made friends with China 50 years ago, and how it's falling apart. The podcast would also air on NPR'sHere and Now (Boston)in February.

Publications

Articles

• When America and China Collided,Foreign Affairs,July 5, 2024

External links

• The New York Times- articles by Jane Perlez
• AppearancesonC-SPAN