Mr. Frank Ching
Author

Mr. Frank Ching is a journalist and writer who has reported and commented on events in Asia, particularly China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, for many years. Mr. Ching worked for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He opened The Wall Street Journal's bureau in China after the normalization of U.S.-China relations, thus becoming one of the first four American newspaper reporters to be based in Beijing since 1949.

Mr. Ching's articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, World Policy Journal, China Quarterly, Current History, the Washington Quarterly, and other publications.E In 1976, when Dow Jones launched The Asian Wall Street Journal, Mr. Ching joined the new publication and worked as a reporter and editor. He also wrote a weekly column on political, social and economic developments in China. In 1979, he opened The Wall Street Journal's bureau in Beijing and remained there for four years, during which time he covered the emergence of China from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, the open-door policy, the trial of the Gang of Four, the opening up of the country to foreign investment and China's strategic alignment with the United States against the Soviet Union. In 1992, he joined the Far Eastern Economic Review. He wrote a weekly column, "Eye On Asia" in which he commented on political developments around the region.

For over a decade, Mr. Ching hosted a weekly current affairs TV program in Hong Kong, Newsline, which appears every Sunday evening on ATV World.

Today, he writes a weekly column on China which appears in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea. Currently, in addition to writing, he is also Adjunct Associate Professor with both the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.