Josh Chin (’07) interviews Shanghai-based New York Times writer Howard French for China Digital Times‘ ChinaCast:

French covers a wide swathe of China through a staggering variety of lenses—the Internet, business, demographics and social dislocation, mass incidents and marginal politics. He’s been a foreign reporter for the New York Times since 1990, with previous postings in West Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Before coming to China, he was the newspaper’s man in Tokyo. He talks to us about the shock his first dining experience in China, drowning in the abundance of China stories, and whether or not he’ll be able to cope with ayi withdrawal once he goes back to the US.

Listen to the interview here. Also see French’s blog, A Glimpse of the World.

French spent a week straddling February and March at the journalism school as a Regent’s Lecturer.