For Former Propagandist, Communism in China Is Not Dead… Yet

In China he would visit karaoke bars after work and get bundles of fresh lamb delivered to his doorstep for bribes. Now, living in the Chinese enclave of Flushing, New York.
For Former Propagandist, Communism in China Is Not Dead… Yet
Sitting in a small office in Flushing, Zhang Kaichen reads one of the newspapers produced by the Chinese dissident community. Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times
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<a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/CHINA-PHOTO1-COLOR_medium.jpg"><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/07/CHINA-PHOTO1-COLOR_medium.jpg" alt="OTHER SHORE: Sitting in a small office in Flushing, Zhang Kaichen reads one of the newspapers produced by the Chinese dissident community. He now works a menial job and barely gets by, but in China, as a propaganda director, he had his own office and regularly received bribes. (Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times)" title="OTHER SHORE: Sitting in a small office in Flushing, Zhang Kaichen reads one of the newspapers produced by the Chinese dissident community. He now works a menial job and barely gets by, but in China, as a propaganda director, he had his own office and regularly received bribes. (Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-125811"/></a>
OTHER SHORE: Sitting in a small office in Flushing, Zhang Kaichen reads one of the newspapers produced by the Chinese dissident community. He now works a menial job and barely gets by, but in China, as a propaganda director, he had his own office and regularly received bribes. (Matthew Robertson/The Epoch Times)
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.
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