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News is My Job: A Correspondent in War-Torn China

News is My Job: A Correspondent in War-Torn China - Paperback

by Edna Lee Booker
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Availability:In StockContributor:Edna Lee Booker, Patricia Luce ChapmanTheme:Cultural Region/ChinesePublish date:3/3/2022Pages:460
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Earnshaw Books Ltd.ISBN-13:9789888422241ISBN-10:9888422243UPC:9789888422241Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, MemoirsBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.20 x 5.60 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.613Product ID:SCH1KQ2J0A

One of the first women journalists in China, Edna Lee Booker arrived in 1922 and threw herself into the story, snagging a number of exclusive interviews with warlords and also with Sun Yat-sen and Mao Tse-tung. She worked on the Shanghai newspaper China Press, and was also the Shanghai stringer for the International News Service, InterNews. Her book, was a best-seller on publication in 1940 and was hugely influential in strengthening American support for the Chinese government of Chiang Kai-Shek. This edition also has an introduction by her daughter, Patricia Luce Chapman.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Earnshaw Books Ltd.ISBN-13:9789888422241ISBN-10:9888422243UPC:9789888422241Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Asia, MemoirsBook Topic:ChinaSize:8.20 x 5.60 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.613Product ID:SCH1KQ2J0A
Edna Lee Booker was an American journalist who authored several books about China during the 1930s and 1940s. She arrived in Shanghai in 1922 as foreign correspondent for the International News Service of New York City and as, in her own words, a "girl reporter" for the China Press newspaper, then the leading American daily in China. Patricia Luce Chapman was born in 1926 and lived in Shanghai for the first 14 years of her life, moving to the United States in November 1940. She had a career in journalism, songwriting, and acting.
Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd.

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Edna Lee Booker, Patricia Luce Chapman

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