Reporting the Chinese Revolution
Subtitle: The Letters of Rayna Prohme
Contributors: Gregor Benton (Introduction)
Publisher: Pluto Press
Published: September 26, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780745326429
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: from c 1900 -; Biography: general; Press & journalism; Asia - China; History; China; Correspondence; Freeland, Helen,; Journalists; United States; d. 1956; History: World
Description: "Rayna Prohme and her husband Bill edited an English-language newspaper in Wuhan. Rayna's account of her intimate involvement in the Chinese Revolution brings to life the eventful Wuhan years of 1926-27, which shaped the revolution's course. Her letters illuminate from a personal angle the battle for China's future and include remarkable portraits of some of the people who shaped the Communist and Nationalist movements of the time." "The book consists of letters Prohme wrote to her closest friend and her husband. Her reporting brought her into contact with many major political figures including Madam Sun Yat-sen (a prominent figure in the opposition to Chiang Kai-shek) and Mikhail Borodin (a chief Soviet advisor in China)."--Jacket.