Project: "Mao's Muddle? China's Attempt to Embrace American Prosperity and Reject American Ideals," looking at the problems and solutions prompted by Chinese government policy.

Bio:

Shai is presently a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, covering news for Hong Kong and Macau. He previously served as Beijing Bureau Chief for AsiaWeek and as Beijing correspondent for the Bureau of National Affairs and the San Francisco Chronicle. He has also covered OPEC for Dow Jones Newswires in London. In June of 2008, Shai was presented with the Osborn Elliott Award for Excellence in Journalism from the Asia Society. In 2007 he won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting as part of the Beijing bureau for "his sharply edged reports on the adverse impact of China's booming capitalism on conditions ranging from inequality to pollution." Shai also received the 2007 George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting. In addition, he won the 2005 Online Business Journalist of the Year Award for coverage of Saudi Arabia. He also captured the Dow Jones Newswires Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2003-2004 for team coverage of OPEC. He graduated from Columbia University with a B.A. in history and an M.S. in journalism.