Through the Looking Glass
Subtitle: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9789622099821
Subjects: Foreign correspondents; Mass media, china
Description: 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.