Full Description
Western Journalists on Japan, China and Greater East Asia, 1897-1956, planned as a collection in four series of 10-volume sets, offers a significant primary source of journalistic memoir and journalism relating to East Asia, Japan's brief empire in South-East Asia, civil war and communist unification in China and the Cold War in East Asia over a period of six decades. With a Foreword by Waseda University's Tsuchiya Reiko and a General Introduction by Series Editor Peter O'Connor, each Series contextualises dispatches to Western newspapers and highlights on-the-spot reports and memoirs from Anglophone Western and Asian journalists based in East and South-East Asia and writing for locally-published English-language newspapers. Series 2: Pioneering Women Journalists, 1919-1949 comprises 16 full-length volumes (c.4100 pages), opening with Ellen La Motte's Peking Dust (1919) and concluding with Anna Louise Strong's The Chinese Conquer China (1949).
Contents
General Introduction: Peter O'Connor
Volume 1
La Motte, Ellen, Peking Dust (1919) (New York: Century).
La Motte, Ellen, The Ethics of Opium (1924) (New York: Century).
Volume 2
Harrison, Marguerite (1924) Red Bear or Yellow Dragon? (New York: George H. Doran Company).
Volume 3
Munday, Madeleine C. (1935) Far East (London: S. Paul).
Munday, Madeleine C. (1940?) Rice Bowl Broken (London: Hutchinson).
Volume 4
Booker, Edna Lee [Edna Lee Potter] (1941 [1940]) News is my Job: A Correspondent in War-Torn China (New York: Macmillan).
Volume 5
Sues, Ilona Ralf (1944) Shark's Fins and Millet (New York: Garden City Publishing).
Volume 6
Oakes, Vanya (1943) White Man's Folly (Boston: Houghton Mifflin).
Volume 7
Haven, Violet Sweet (1944) Gentlemen of Japan: A Study in Rapist Diplomacy. With a Foreword by James R. Young (Chicago, New York: Ziff-Davis).
Volume 8
Hahn, Emily (1946 [1941]) Hong Kong Holiday (New York: Doubleday & Company).
Thorbecke, Ellen (1938?) Hong Kong, photographed and depicted by Ellen Thorbecke with sketches by Schiff (Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald Ltd.).
Volume 9
Thorbecke, Ellen (1937?) Shanghai, photographed and depicted by Ellen Thorbecke with sketches by Schiff (Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald Ltd.).
Argall, Phyllis (1945) Prisoner in Japan (London: Geoffrey Bles, 52 Doughty Street, London W.C.1.).
Volume 10
Strong, Anna Louise (1939) China Fights for Freedom. Foreword by Madame Chiang Kai-shek (London: Lindsay Drummond).
Strong, Anna Louise (1948) Tomorrow's China (New York Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy).
Strong, Anna Louise (1949) The Chinese Conquer China (New York: Henry Doubleday).
