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

By Edna Lee Booker

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9888422243
• ISBN13: 9789888422241
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Earnshaw Books Ltd
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.6" x 8.2"