Hamish McDonald

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Hamish McDonald is a print journalist and author of several books.[1] He also holds a fellowship at the American think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies.[2]

Career

McDonald has been working as a journalist in mostly Asian countries like India, Japan, Indonesia, Hong Kong and China, where he was a correspondent based in Beijing from 2002 to 2005. He was in India between 1990 and 1997, covering the time immediately after the economic reforms.[2] He was also the political editor for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald.[1]

In 2005, he won the Walkley Award for newspaper feature writing for his article What's Wrong With Falun Gong, which is about the brutal suppression of the Falun Gong religious movement in China.[3][4]

Books

  • Suharto's Indonesia, 1980[1]
  • The Polyester Prince, 1998: This unauthorized biography of Dhirubhai Ambani never went to print in India after the publishers were threatened with legal action by the Ambani family.[5]
  • Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra, 2001: Co-authored with Desmond Ball[1]
  • Masters of Terror: Indonesia's Military & Violence in East Timor in 1999, 2002[1]
  • Mahabharata in Polyester: The Making of the World’s Richest Brothers and Their Feud, 2010:[6] The book was published in India as Ambani and Sons.[5][7][8]
  • Demokrasi: Indonesia in the 21st Century, St. Martin's Press, 2015

References

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Further reading

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