Through the looking glass : China's foreign journalists from Opium Wars to Mao / Paul French.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

French, Paul, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Foreign correspondents--China--History.

Foreign correspondents.

China--Press coverage.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 p.)

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press ; [London : Eurospan, distributor], 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with newspapers printed in the European factories of Canton in the 1820s. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the future of China and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over the revolution. This book tells the story of China's foreign journalists.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Names and Spelling; Introduction : Through the Looking Glass; 1 - God, Mammon and Flag; 2 - Civil and Other Wars -Rebels, Mercenaries and More Dope; 3 - Boxers and Treaty Porters -Headlines Change History; 4 - The Vultures Descend; 5 - Writing in a Republic -Printing What They Damn Well Liked; 6 - The Roaring Twenties -Substituting Action for Talk; 7 - The Decadent Thirties - Celebrities, Gangsters and the Ladies of the Press; 8 - The Dirty Thirties - Left Wing, Right Wing, Imperialists and Spies; 9 - Too Hot - China Fights for Its Life

10 - In Air Raid Shelters and Caves -Covering the War11 - Interregnum -End of a War, Start of a Revolution; Notes; Bibliography; Appendix; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-282) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

988-220-762-6

1-282-70957-7

9786612709579

988-8052-98-5

OCLC:

650509047