He was to become the paper's Beijing correspondent later this year and has been in language training since November.
Two experienced Beijing correspondents argue that on the whole toughness, not accommodation, should govern America's policy toward a rapidly ascending great power.
Before that he was a Beijing correspondent responsible for coverage of China and the region.
The New Yorker's Beijing correspondent describes a country in constant motion and reveals its historical underpinning.
One, Zhang Weiguo, a lawyer and former Beijing correspondent, was released only in February.
Bennet was due to become the Times's Beijing correspondent in late 2006.
He is now the Beijing correspondent for the New Yorker as a result of his ability to make humane and detailed observations.
During the first two years when Shao was working as the Beijing correspondent of Shenbao, he wrote 251 articles with more than 220 thousand words.
Wong worked for The Globe and Mail, serving as Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994, when she returned to write from Canada.
Our Beijing correspondent James Reynolds has blogged some interesting thoughts about the sensitivities of covering the earthquake in China.