Through the looking glass China's foreign journalists from Opium Wars to Mao - French, Paul (Hong Kong University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index
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
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