{"id":160550,"date":"2013-07-28T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T02:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=160550"},"modified":"2013-07-28T21:20:57","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T04:20:57","slug":"freelancer-describes-experience-writing-on-mongolian-prostitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2013\/07\/freelancer-describes-experience-writing-on-mongolian-prostitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting on Trafficked Women in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from his new book <a title=\" Reporter\u2019s memoir an honest tale of living and working abroad in China\" href=\"ttp:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062124439\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=0062124439&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=chidigtim0b-20\">Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China<\/a>, in Salon Magazine, journalist Mitch Moxley grimly describes his travels to Erlian and to Macau <a title=\" Sexual trafficking in China: Kidnapped into prostitution\" href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/07\/27\/sexual_trafficking_in_china_kidnapped_into_prostitution\/\"> <strong>where he interviewed local prostitutes who had been trafficked\u00a0from Mongolia<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0While detailing the encounters he has with prostitutes, Moxley, who pursued this story after he was let go from his reporting job\u00a0when Asia Weekly magazine folded,\u00a0also reflects on the difficulties of life as a freelance writer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Her name was Alimaa. She was twenty-three. She told us she worked late the night before and was exhausted today. Two years earlier, in Ulaanbaatar, she and a friend were recruited by two men to work at a karaoke bar in Beijing. When she arrived in the Chinese capital, her recruiters told her she had to work as a prostitute. They made it clear she didn\u2019t have a choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took us to different rooms in a hotel and showed us Chinese girls who had been raped,\u201d she said as Esso translated and I wrote in my notebook. \u201cThey said, \u2018Take a look, this is what will happen if you don\u2019t do this.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>I took notes furiously, trying to capture all the details. This is exactly what we needed for our story, and we were getting it in the first interview. There is a certain numbness a journalist gets when reporting a story like this. You\u2019re transcribing horrors into your notebook, but not really processing it; it\u2019s like a surgeon desensitized to blood. I could hear Alimaa\u2019s story, but I couldn\u2019t feel it. Later, I would feel terrible for her and others like her, but for now I was focused on one thing: getting the story.[<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/07\/27\/sexual_trafficking_in_china_kidnapped_into_prostitution\/\">Source<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read Moxley&#8217;s original reporting from 2009,\u00a0<a title=\"Road To Ruin: The Trafficked Women Of Mongolia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchmoxley.ca\/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9\">&#8220;Road to Ruin: The Trafficked Women of Mongolia,&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0republished on his website from The South China Morning Post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from his new book Apologies to My Censor: The High and Low Adventures of a Foreigner in China, in Salon Magazine, journalist Mitch Moxley grimly describes his travels to Erlian and to Macau where he interviewed local prostitutes who had been trafficked\u00a0from Mongolia. \u00a0While detailing the 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