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
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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index
