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Paul French's Through the Looking Glass: China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao

AccessAsia's Paul French, author of a book on Carl Crow has written another book, this time about the lives and exploits of foreign journalists reporting from China from the 1820s to 1949. From the press release: "Like journalists everywhere, the old... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Fri, Jun 19 2009

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