The GlobalPost Team
Edward A. Gargan - GlobalPost Correspondent in the China
Edward A. Gargan will cover China for GlobalPost. Mr. Gargan has worked around the world for The New York Times and Newsday. He has been based in Africa, India, Hong Kong and twice in China. In Africa he traveled widely and reported on the Mobutu dictatorship, the Libyan invasion of Chad, the end of the Nyerere administration in Tanzania, and collapse of the Tito Okello tyranny in Uganda. In India, he covered the opening years of the country's economic modernization, the rise of Hindu fundamentalism, political turmoil in Pakistan and the end of the Najibullah regime and the advent of militant Islamic rule. In his two China postings he covered the nascent democracy movement and the early stirrings of economic liberalization, and later the rise of the middle classes, the spread of corruption, the changing, and unchanging status of women, and growing the gap between urban and rural China. When based in Hong Kong, he wrote extensively on the political and social issues leading up to the colony's reversion to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997. He also reported extensively on the war in Afghanistan following the attacks on the United States in September 2001, the Iraq war in 2003, as well as frequent coverage of the second Palestinian intifada. He has covered topics like ecological destruction in Indonesia, the presidential election in Taiwan, the tentative openings between North and South Korea, and the transformation of Mongolia in the post-Soviet era. He is the author of two books, China's Fate and The River's Tale.