American Editor in Early Revolutionary China : John William Powell and the China Weekly/Monthly Review

ISBN-13: 9780415944243 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 332 str.

Neil L. O'Brien

Opis

This is a study of Sino-American relations and the editorial policy of the China Weekly Review/China Monthly Review, published in Shanghai by John William Powell during the Chinese Civil War and the Korean War. The Review supported US attempts in early 1946 to avert civil war through the creation of a coalition government. During the Korean War, the Review opposed the expanding US air war, becoming the foremost American purveyor of Chinese and North Korean allegations of American use of bacteriological weapons. The Review was also used for the political indoctrination of US prisoners-of-war by the Chinese and North Koreans. After closing the Review in July 1953 and returning to the United States, Powell was put on trial for sedition. Adverse publicity led to a mistrial in January 1959 and limitations in both the sedition and treason statutes ended plans to renew prosecution. Powell and the Review had insisted that positive diplomatic and economic relations between China and the United States were both possible and desirable. The gradual normalization of trade, investment and political relations since the 1970s seems to validate this belief.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: John William Powell and the China Weekly/Monthly Review , an American Editor in Early Revolutionary China 2. The Strands of Disillusionment, A Three Year Overview of the China Weekly/Monthly Review , 1946-1948: Part 1 3. The Strands of Disillusionment, Part II: Loss of Faith 4. Seasons Change: The Late Fall 1948 and Impending Collapse 5. Plumbing the Unknown: The Months Prior to Takeover, January-May, 1949 6. Shock and Adjustment to the New Order: The Communists Enter Shanghai, May-September, 1949 7. The Review's Campaign for Recognition, June 1949-July 1950 8. Accommodation and Reassessment: The Winds of Ideological Change 9. The Bacteriological Warfare Issue and the Review , Part I: Antecendents and Controversy 10. The Bacteriological Warfare Issue and the Review , Part II 11. Homecoming and Execration 12. Conclusion

O autorze

Neil O'Brien