China Reporting
eBook - ePub

China Reporting

An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s

  1. 268 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

China Reporting

An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s

About this book

China Reporting is an oral history showing how the China correspondent of the 1930s and 1940s constructed his or her news reality or the network of facts from which their stories were written. How these men and women pooled information and decided upon the legitimacy of particular sources is explored. The influences of competition, language facility (or lack thereof), common personal backgrounds, camaraderie, and changes in American official China policy are also discussed, with special attention paid to the prescriptive, gatekeeping role of editors back home. This is an approach which has often been applied to the domestic journalist. China Reporting is a pioneering effort at using historical perspective to view the foreign correspondent in terms fo the total epistemological context in which he or she operates to produce the news that in turn provides the data base upon which the public and policy makers inevitably draw. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Note on Romanization and Typographic Conventions
  7. Cast of Characters
  8. Chronology
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Henry Luce and the Gordian Knot
  11. 2. The Shanghai Scene in the 1930s
  12. 3. Romantic Hankow, 1938
  13. 4. Chungking: A Different Time and A Different Place
  14. 5. Newsgathering and Censorship
  15. 6. The Gatekeepers: Deciding What Finally Reaches the Reader
  16. 7. The Missed Stories
  17. 8. Political Objectivity and Personal Judgments
  18. 9. Press Coverage of China, American Government Policy, and Public Opinion
  19. 10. Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. Glossary
  22. Selected Additional Readings
  23. Index