Research Catalog

Title

Reporting the Chinese Revolution : the letters of Rayna Prohme / Baruch Hirson and Arthur J. Knodel ; edited and with an introduction by Gregor Benton.

Author

Hirson, Baruch.

Publication

London ; Ann Arbor : Pluto Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Knodel, Arthur, 1916-
• Benton, Gregor.

Description

xiii, 196 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

"Rayna Prohme and her husband Bill edited an English-language newspaper in Wuhan. Rayna's account of her intimate involvement in the Chinese Revolution brings to life the eventful Wuhan years of 1926-27, which shaped the revolution's course. Her letters illuminate from a personal angle the battle for China's future and include remarkable portraits of some of the people who shaped the Communist and Nationalist movements of the time." "The book consists of letters Prohme wrote to her closest friend and her husband. Her reporting brought her into contact with many major political figures including Madam Sun Yat-sen (a prominent figure in the opposition to Chiang Kai-shek) and Mikhail Borodin (a chief Soviet advisor in China)."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Letters of Rayna Prohme

Subject

• Prohme, Rayna, -1927 > Correspondence
• Freeland, Helen, -1956 > Correspondence
• Prohme, William, -1935 > Correspondence
• Freeland, Helen, -1956
• Prohme, Rayna, -1927
• Prohme, William, -1935
• 1912-1928
• Journalists > United States > Correspondence
• Journalists > China > Correspondence
• Letters
• China > History > 1912-1928
• China
• United States

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-184) and index.

Contents

1. Rayna Prohme: A Retrospect -- 2. Road to China -- 3. Peking and Canton -- 4. Hankow -- 5. Shanghai -- 6. Vladivostok to Moscow -- 7. Moscow.

ISBN

• 9780745326429
• 0745326420

LCCN

2007300207

OCLC

• ocn148699775
• 148699775
• SCSB-14434391

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library