Amelia Pang in Conversation with Dexter Tiff Roberts
Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore welcome award-winning journalist Amelia Pang to discuss her first book, Made in China. Amelia will be in conversation with Dexter Tiff Roberts, senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative; adjunct instructor in political science and Mansfield Fellow at the University of Montana; and author of recently published The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory and the Future of the World. This virtual event will take place on Tuesday, March 16 at 7 p.m. Register on Darien Library’s website at darienlibrary.org/event/4880.
Made in China is the true story of a handwritten plea for help found in a box of Halloween decorations purchased from an Oregon Kmart. This letter from Sun Yi, a political prisoner forced into grueling, unpaid labor, would lead Amelia Pang in pursuit of its origins and expose the often hidden, torturous human cost of cheap consumer goods.
About Amelia Pang
Amelia Pang is an award-winning journalist who has written for publications such as Mother Jones and The New Republic. She has covered topics ranging from organic import fraud to the prevalence of sexual violence on Native American reservations. In 2017, the Los Angeles Press Club awarded her first place in investigative journalism for her undercover reporting on the exploitation of smuggled immigrants who are recruited to work in Chinese restaurants. Amelia grew up in a Mandarin-speaking household in Maryland and holds a B.A. in literary studies from the New School. She lives near Washington, D.C., with her husband, an organic farmer. Made in China is her first book.
About Dexter Tiff Roberts
Dexter Tiff Roberts is an award-winning writer and speaker on China now serving as a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Asia Security Initiative, a Fellow at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center, and an adjunct instructor in political science at the University of Montana.