CB3042 FENG Yuan SID: 54013812
Introduction
Kan Jian (Insight) is an autobiography published in 2013. It is written by the former CCTV reporter Chai Jing. Each chapter in the book is focusing on one piece of reportage. The stories are not only recording Chai’s growth and maturity as an excellent reporter, but also presenting as an insight of China’s social changes and problems in the past 10 years. These reportages are all her personal experiences when she was working at the CCTV programs News Investigation and Insight, which is another reason why she named her book Insight. My essay will firstly give an introduction about the content and explain the general idea of the book. Following this, it will …show more content…
Media plays an important role to judge things, showing the public a proper way of thinking, rather than allowing anyone to become a public enemy. This sentence tells the point, shows us the chaotic state of the current relationship between the media and news events. News events sometimes can lead to ignorance and prejudice. Take the example of the South China tiger event a few years ago, the director of Zhenping's Forestry Bureau insisted on the existence of the South China tiger, which has no scientific basis. What’s more, he himself is totally ignorant of scientific inference, finally resulting in the world's …show more content…
He has become a volunteer teacher in a small village in Guangxi Province for over ten years, where people are really touched by Löwe himself. He is highly educated, has sufficient skills to find a good job, but he stays here for the children in the rural area for ten years, not as a formal teachers, poorly paid, the treatment is even lower, certainly a suffer in the ordinary view of others. But he is an incredible person. He said that civilization is about occasionally stop to think about what he was doing; he said that China's rural and urban people have a biggest problem, which is that they are always in a hurry. Then, Chai asked him what he means by “in a hurry”. He said that it means people are eager to see the outcome with no time to set a solid foundation and refuse to wait with patience. He also believed that freedom means one’s mind should have no obstacle to opinions and views. Löwe is an ordinary person. But his thoughts for China are even clearer than many of the Chinese. What he did could not be defined by a normal sense of success criteria. He had few results, did not have a great man as his student. But he himself can be defined as power. He did think, it is a kind of inner strength. It shocks us, touches us by the heart. I could read that during this interview, Chai was also moved. Thoughts can bring people into an infinite