Profile:
Full name: Isabel Hilton
Area of interest: International affairs, China, sustainable development, new media, climate change, environment
Journals/Organisation: The Guardian
Email: isabel.hilton@chinadialogue.net
Personal website:
Website: http://www.chinadialogue.net/author/show/59-Isabel-Hilton-br- | Guardian.co / Isabel Hilton
Blog: Comments is free...
Representation: Aitken Alexander Associates
Networks: https://twitter.com/#!/isabelhilton | http://www.linkedin.com/pub/3/8A5/047
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Biography:
About: Commentator, print and broadcast journalist, author: http://www.chinadialogue.net/static/about#team
Education: Edinburgh University: Chinese MA (Hons), including two years study in China at Beijing Foreign Language & Culture University, and Fudan University, Shanghai
Career: joined Scottish Television as a reporter, 1976; Daily Express: feature writer, 1997; The Sunday Times: feature writer, news reporter, ‘insight’ reporter, special correspondent: China; Latin America editor, assistant foreign editor (incl. covering the Falklands War from Buenos Aires), 1997/1986; The Independent: Latin American editor, European affairs editor, 1986/1991, chief feature writer, 1991/1995; The Guardian: columnist, 1997-present. Edited openDemocracy 2005/2007.
Current position/role: Editor of Chinadialogue.net
- also writes/has written for: Regular contributor to the New Yorker, New Statesman, Time, New York Times Magazine, Literary Review, Financial Times, The Independent, The Observer and The Economist
Other roles/Main role: Editor of online environment publication Chinadialogue
Other activities: Lecturer on international relations
Disclosures:
Viewpoints/Insight: New Humanist magazine (Vol.120 Issue 4): Serious intent: Laurie Taylor interviews Isabel Hilton July/August 2005
Broadcast media:
Video: Presented BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight 1995/1998; since 1999 has presented BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves (see for extended biography)
Documentaries:
- Petra And The General - an investigation of the life and death of Petra Kelly, BBC 1994
- Kingdom Of The Lost Boy - account of the search for the 11th Panchen Lama, BBC 1996
- City On The Edge - documentary about economic reforms in China, 1998
- Condemned To Live - report on the after effects of mass rape and genocide in Rwanda, 1999
- The Caravan Of Death - on the case against ex-President of Chile Augusto Pinochet
Controversy/Criticism: "...placed on MI5's "Christmas Tree" list, which prevented her from employment with the BBC in 1976" - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabel_Hilton
Awards/Honours: Honorary doctorate (D Litt) Bradford University, for services to international understanding
Scoops:
Other: Married to Neal Ascherson
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The Guardian:
Column name: blog and irregular comment pieces
Remit/Info: International affairs, China, sustainable development, new media, climate change, environment
Section: Comment & debate pages
Role: Commentator
Pen-name:
Email: isabel.hilton@guardian.co.uk
Personal website:
Website: Guardian.co / Isabel Hilton
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Journals:
- Chen Guangcheng saga shows fallacy of president's 'harmonious society' - The activist who escaped from house arrest is likely to be a continuing thorn in the Communist party's side - 28th April 2012
- Can Kim Jong-un be North Korea's Deng Xiaoping? - The death of Kim Jong-il recalls Mao's. But China, unlike paranoid North Korea, opted for the path of reform - 20th December 2011
- China is on the fast train to disaster - High-speed rail has come to symbolise the cost-cutting and corruption that plagues China - 28th July 2011
- China's Confucian makeover - The revolutionaries of 1911 might recognise the system they fought in today's communist China - 30th June 2011
- Corporate China's political shadows - British business should be wary of the opaque Communist party role in China's corporate culture - 22nd May 2011
- China may grow old before it grows rich - A rapidly ageing, gender-skewed population is giving China a headache – as are migrant workers who have moved off the land - 29th April 2011
- Under this surreal 'rule by law', Ai Weiwei is guilty - Such a distortion of the judiciary means those who seek to protect their fellow citizens are now most at risk in China - 8th April 2011
- In China, to get rich is not always glorious - China is wealthier – but its people are unhappier. Its new five-year plan will hope to cheer them up - 11th March 2011
- Will the next Dalai Lama be reincarnated in China? - At 75, the exiled Dalai Lama has announced his retirement. He has often suggested that the succession should disappear with him. But the Chinese have other ideas - 11th March 2011
- China crackdown: A tweak of the tiger's tail - Last week's arrests reveal Beijing's fears about influences from a world it can no longer shut out - 26th February 2011
- US embassy cables: Beijing's lost patience leaves Pyongyang with little to lose - The revelation that China might accept the idea of reunification under South Korea could make an unstable situation worse - 30th November 2010 See: Wikileaks cables reveal China 'ready to abandon North Korea'
- A triumph for moral authority - When strong regimes show their fear of weak individuals, their own vulnerability stands revealed. So it is with Burma's generals - 15th November 2010
- One ordeal ends while another begins - The 33 miners, the collective stars of this modern fairy tale, have been liberated from the mine in more ways than one - 16th October 2010
- Inequality causes headaches in Beijing - China's 'grey economy' may help handbag sales, but it reveals dizzyingly high levels of inequality - 8th October 2010
- Is Google just the start? - As the global giant loses out in China, western firms fear the odds may be stacked against them - 14th July 2010
- Cuba: a revolution in the rough - Fifty years after Fidel and Che mocked golf, Cuba's regime is in thrall to this most ungreen of activities - 7th May 2010
- North Korea: a dangerous anachronism - Paranoid garrison states don't collapse. If Kim Jong-il's regime is to be reformed, it will be at Beijing's bidding - 1st April 2010 (North Korea: summary)
- Hostage to hot air - The climate debate in the US – and so the world – is mired in political weakness and infighting - 17th February 2010
- The real Himalayan scandal - What's really shocking about research into the glaciers of the Himalayas is how little there has been - 20th january 2010
- Don't blame the Haitians for doubting US promises - Will the fate of this quake-ravaged nation once again be decided by outsiders? - 18th January 2010
- Beijing has seen the future and knows it must be green - While China aims to hold the patents on tomorrow's clean technologies, the US remains in the climate change dark ages - 27th November 2009 (see: China: summary)
- News slips through China's net - Attempts to censor comment on events such as Obama's call for an end to internet censorship are crude and self-defeating - 17th November 2009
- How volleyball and pop have shaken China's idea of race - The rhetoric of solidarity has long papered over talk of ethnic unease. But two young citizens have sparked a novel debate - 16th November 2009
- China's 30 missing years - There's one story today's celebrations won't tell: how the people lifted the party out of poverty - 1st October 2009
- Dissolution of paradise - The options for Tibetan refugees are narrowing as China flexes its muscles in landlocked Nepal - 10th September 2009
- China shakes off image as climate criminal with green revolution - Coal-hungry China's low-carbon ambitions are to its economic advantage as it jostles for position at Copenhagen with the US - 13th June 2009 (see: China launches green power revolution to catch up on west)
- Beijing loved Bush's America. Now it is much less sanguine - Hillary Clinton arrives in China knowing this most crucial relationship is off to a frosty start. It may all hinge on climate talks - 20th February 2009
- Beijing's block vote - Faced with Chinese intransigence, young Tibetans are planning for life after the Dalai Lama - 24th November 2008
- The camera never lies. But photographers can and do - A stunning new twist in the story of Capa's iconic war image shows that authenticity is more than just an artistic criterion - 27th September 2008
- The Olympics party is over. Now China has to clean up - The games showed off the country's power and apparent wealth, but its pollution and hidden poverty must be faced - 10th September 2008
- Its green medal hopes are lost but Beijing must race on - Failure to meet the Olympic cleanup pledge will embarrass China. If it stays ambitious, however, it can earn real respect - 31st July 2008
- First city of the future - China's ancient capital - dating back to the 15th-century Ming emperors - withstood even the advent of Communism in 1949. But now the explosion of capitalism is transforming Beijing into a world-beating megalopolis amid a frenzy of building, commerce and art that has rocked the city's teeming millions with a new revolution - 6th July 2008
- The healing process - Chile will never recover from Pinochet's legacy unless the victims of his regime are given justice - 30th May 2008
- Before the flood - The earthquake in Sichuan province has raised fears of an even greater catastrophe if one or more of China's many dams were to fail - 16th May 2008
- Ditch the tatty flag of nationalism - When it took on the games, China promised heroic efforts for change. But the torch debacle has left it snarling in a corner - 12th April 2008
- It has been a farce, but this crisis needn't end in tragedy - Following his dramatic incursion into Ecuador, Uribe has humiliated Chávez and prolonged an endless civil war - 7th March 2008
- Bad omen from Beijing - The arrest of a leading Aids and environmental activist doesn't bode well for China's human rights record in the run-up to the Olympics - 1st February 2008
- It is our business - If China is to be a major investor in Britain, we cannot continue to avert our gaze when it comes to human rights issues - 18th January 2008
- Latin America: the leaders change but the injustice lives on - They've seen off the US, for now, but their failure to change lives could lose them popular support - Sunday, 27th April 2008
- No change at China Inc - For all the much vaunted modernisation, as the party congress begins, political reform is stuck - 15th October 2007
- China does not want another Tiananmen Square by proxy - Beijing has protected Burma's regime till now, but a brutal response to the protests would not be in its interests - 25th September 2007
- Greenland is now a country fit for broccoli growers - The climate is changing so quickly that a land of hunters is becoming one of farmers and fearful scientists - 14th September
- The greatest threat to peace in Nepal is military impunity - Britain is wrong to roll out the red carpet for the head of a defiant army that so gravely imperils the path to democracy - 20th July 2007
- China's one-party monopoly of power is coming to an end - Increasing numbers are speaking up against local tyrannies and corruption, and no longer can the state silence them - 12th July 2007
- We must take the lead - China, now the worlds biggest polluter, will only act on climate change if we lead by example - 21st June 2007
- A dark underbelly of mass graves and electoral fraud - Congress is questioning a Latin American policy that has left George Bush with a best friend who is a major embarrassment - 8th March 2007
- China's green pledges are as deep as a coat of paint - Despite Beijing's much-vaunted environmental initiatives, all that counts to provincial officials is economic growth - 20th February 2007
- A dictator dismantled - Pinochet escaped justice, but became a national disgrace as his corruption was exposed - 11th December 2006
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