News Is My Job - A Correspondent In War Torn China (Paperback)

NEWS IS MY JOB Jr . A Correspondent in War-Torn China Edna Lee Booker C NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1940 Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek in their garden. Copyright, 1940, by EDNA LEE POTTER All rights reserved no part o this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes to quote brief passages in connection with a review written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper. Set up and printed. Published February, 1940 First Printing, BINGHAMTON, N. Y. To MY HUSBAND JOHN STAUFFER POTTER Acknowledgment SOME OF THE MATERIAL contained in this book has appeared in Cosmopolitan Magazine or in the China Weekly Review and has been used by a number of news paper syndicates and radio programs. My thanks are due to their editors for permission to reproduce it here in different form. I should also like to express my appreciation to Mr. H. S. Latham of the Macmillan Company, Mr. Don Moore of Cosmopolitan Magazine, and Mr. Barry Far r is of the International News Service for their most valuable suggestions. Also to Ruth Sterry and Lavinia Graham Ximmons, the finest newspaper women I have ever known, for their friendship during cub days. And I make grateful acknowledgment to foreign and Chinese friends in the Far East for material, photographs, letters placed at my disposal. The English-Chinese Col loquial Dictionary by Sir Walter Hillier is used as author ity for the Romanization of Chinese words, except when a dialect other than Mandarin is indicated. EDNA LEE BOOKER SHANGHAI, CHINA vii Table of Contents Prologue Shanghai Glamor i Part I War Lords Clash 1922-1923 37 Part II Dare to Die 1924-1932 171 Part III New Life1933-1940 267 Index 37 1 Illustrations Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek in their garden Frontispiece Early Shanghai The city wall in 1843-43 the fig ure of Prince Chun Shun, founder the historic Willow Pattern teahouse and zigzag bridge 34 Chiang Kai-shek and his mother 35 Madame Soong Chia-ju and her three daughters 35 Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt in Shanghai in 1912 with one of the first Chinese womens political groups 35 Madame Wu Pei-fu, in ceremonial dress and Gen eral Wu Pei-fu 50 Marshal Chang Tso-lin 51 The Young General Chang Hsueh-liang 51 Madame Sun Yat-sen and Dr. Sun Yat-sen 162 His Excellency Hsu Hsih-chang 162 Dr. Wu Ting-fang with missionary friends at the Canton Christian College 162 Author, and Roy Anderson, in the bandit country 163