Through the Looking Glass

Through the Looking GlassThe convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with the newspapers printed in the European Factories of Canton in the 1820s and ends with the Communist revolution in 1949. It also starts with a duel between two editors over the China's future and ends with a fistfight in Shanghai over the revolution. The men and women of the foreign press experienced China's history and development; its convulsions and upheavals; revolutions and wars.

It draws together for the first time the writings of various theorists on this theme

highlighting their converging and diverging positions

The first book-length study of one of Britain's most successful young writers

The majority of female inmates are also mothers of children under the age of eighteen

This volume provides a final report on the excavations and includes specialist studies on various artifact groups

Focuses on practical skills reinforced through case studies

began to practice genres of creative writing that were new to the traditions of classical Arabic

and helped to create the myth of the ‘people’s war’

especially in the Labor settlement movement

the book examines the convergence of language and history that takes place in their work

but it also uses historical considerations as they relate to the evolution of ideas

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