Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"China Reporting documents the gathering of American journalists, diplomats and China scholars, "old China hands" all, who met in 1982 to discuss their experience in China. In 1982, a group of reporters and diplomats who had been in China between 1930 and 1950 met in Scottsdale, Ariz., to discuss press coverage of events in those years. Among them were John Hersey, John Fairbank and Annalee Jacoby Fadiman. These excerpts from the conference transcript suggest that those attending generally praised what they perceived to be their objectivity and ability to overcome censorship. MacKinnon, who teaches at Arizona State, and Friesen, an engineer, are less laudatory, pointing out that the inability of most Americans in China during that crucial period to speak the language rendered them incapable of discerning popular sentiment."--Publishers Weekly.
CORPORATE BODY NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Civil War (China :, 1945-1949)
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Foreign correspondents-- China.
Foreign correspondents-- United States.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945-- Foreign public opinion, American.