Willy Wo-Lap Lam

Lam earned a BA from the University of Hong Kong in 1974, an MA from the University of Minnesota in 1978, and subsequently earned a PhD in Political Economy from Wuhan University in 2002.{{Cite web|title=Willy Lam|url=http://www.speakersconnect.com/speaker/willy-lam/|access-date=2020-08-31|website=Speakers Connect {{!}} Asia's Leading Speakers Bureau for Virtual and Live Events|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-10-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027231147/https://www.speakersconnect.com/speaker/willy-lam/|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Willy LAM Wo Lap|url=http://www.ccs.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/people/teaching-staff/willy-lam-wo-lap|access-date=2020-08-31|website=www.ccs.cuhk.edu.hk|archive-date=2020-08-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200830020003/http://www.ccs.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/people/teaching-staff/willy-lam-wo-lap|url-status=live}}

Lam worked as a columnist for the South China Morning Post until 2000. He was the paper's Beijing correspondent until the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, and was China editor during the 1997 handover of Hong Kong.{{cite web|url=https://geostrategy-direct-subscribers.com/willy-lam/|title=Willy Lam|website=Geostrategy-Direct|date=3 November 2016|accessdate=2 August 2019|archive-date=17 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617024440/http://geostrategy-direct-subscribers.com/willy-lam/|url-status=live}} In 1995, he was described as the "quintessential China watcher";{{cite journal|last=Shambaugh|first=David|year=1995|title=Review of China After Deng Xiaoping|journal=The China Quarterly|volume=142 |number=142|pages=607–609: 608|doi=10.1017/S0305741000035244|jstor=655447|s2cid=155059547 }} CNN called him "one of the most plugged-in observers of Chinese politics in the world" in 1999.{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/99/0611/feat3.html|title=Rise of the nowhere man: Profiling a risk-allergic Jiang presidency|year=1999|last=Healy|first=Tom|website=CNN|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316020524/http://edition.cnn.com/ASIANOW/asiaweek/99/0611/feat3.html|archive-date=16 March 2015}} He left the paper in December 2000 complaining of editorial censorship.{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/05/01/hong-kong-paper-fires-critical-journalist|last=Pan|first=Philip P.|title=Hong Kong Paper Fires Critical Journalist|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=1 May 2002|accessdate=2 August 2019|quotation=Willy Wo-Lap Lam, a columnist known for his insider tales of Communist Party intrigue, complained he was being muzzled and quit in December 2000.|archive-date=2 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190802164142/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/05/01/hong-kong-paper-fires-critical-journalist/|url-status=live}}

Lam was critical of the late CCP general secretary Jiang Zemin, saying that Jiang had "successfully consolidated his power" but "hasn't used that power to accomplish anything significant".

Lam has described the direction of Chinese society under CCP general secretary Xi Jinping as "the closing of the Chinese mind".{{cite news|url=https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/q-and-a-willy-wo-lap-lam-on-chinese-politics-in-the-era-of-xi-jinping|title=Q. and A.: Willy Wo-Lap Lam on 'Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping'|last=Johnson|first=Ian|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1 June 2015|accessdate=2 August 2019|archive-date=6 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806195432/https://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/q-and-a-willy-wo-lap-lam-on-chinese-politics-in-the-era-of-xi-jinping/|url-status=live}}

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• {{cite book|last=Lam|first=Willy Wo-Lap|title=The Era of Zhao Ziyang: Power Struggle in China, 1986–88|year=1989|place=Hong Kong|publisher=A.B. Books & Stationery|isbn=9627374016}}
• {{cite book|last=Lam|first=Willy Wo-Lap|author-mask=4|title=China After Deng Xiaoping|year=1995|place=New York|publisher=John Wiley and Sons|isbn=0471131148|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/chinaafterdengxi00lamw}}
• {{cite book|last=Lam|first=Willy Wo-Lap|author-mask=4|title=The Era of Jiang Zemin|year=1999|place=Singapore|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=0130837016}}
• {{cite book|last=Lam|first=Willy Wo-Lap|author-mask=4|title=Chinese Politics in the Hu Jintao Era: New Leaders, New Challenges|year=2006|place=Armonk and London|publisher=M.E. Sharpe|isbn=0765617730}}
• {{cite book|last=Lam|first=Willy Wo-Lap|author-mask=4|title=Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?|year=2015|place=Abingdon|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0765642097}}
• {{cite book|last=Lam|first=Willy Wo-Lap|author-mask=4|title=The Fight for China's Future: Civil Society vs. the Chinese Communist Party|year=2019|place=Abingdon|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0367188665}}

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• [https://jamestown.org/analyst/willy-wo-lap-lam/ Articles] at Jamestown Foundation
• [http://www.ccs.cuhk.edu.hk/en-gb/people/teaching-staff/willy-lam-wo-lap Faculty page] at Chinese University of Hong Kong

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