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A sia Pacific Media Educator Issue 12 Article 12 12-1-2002 Teaching journalism in Guangzhou A . Zeitlin Guang dong University of F oreig n Studies, China Recommended Citation Zeitlin, A ., Teaching journalism in Guangzhou, A sia Pacific M edia Educator, 12, 2002, 185-193. Available at :.au/apme/vol1/iss12/12 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For urther information contact the UOW Library: research-pubs@.au ARNOLD ZEITLIN: Teaching journalism C O M M E N T A R Y Teaching Journalism In Guangzhou At the core of an effort to teach journalism in English to students in the People’s Republic of China is the question whether there is a point to exposing—for want of a better term—western values to students. They will work under a one-party, totalitarian police state which closely monitors a state-owned news media designed to suppress the bad news and exploit the good for the benefit of the Communist Party of China. A long-time American journalist writes of his experience teaching in an English-language journalism program at a Chinese university and his search for an answer to that question. Arnold Zeitlin Guangdong University of Foreign Studies Guangzhou, China he student’s question went right to the heart of the matter of Tteaching journalism in English to Chinese in the People’s Republic. “China is a different place,” the young man began slowly in deliberate En