Reminiscences of Robert Pepper Martin, 1988.

Biographical Note

Journalist.

Scope and Contents

Coverage of wars in China, Korea, and Vietnam; relationships with CIA, missionaries, Nationalists, Communists, and Russians in China; Chinese, North Korean, South Korean attitudes toward Korean War; struggles in Manchuria; inability of Chinese Nationalists to rule; breakdown and unreliability of U.S. intelligence in China; Russian influence on Communist growth in China; different styles and personalities of journalistic colleagues; reminiscences of Communist and Nationalist Chinese leaders; Chinese public sentiment toward Nationalists, Communists, Russians, and Japanese; difficulties for foreigners living in China; impressions of Chinese Air Transport, later Air America; China before, during, and after civil war and Communist takeover; journalist community in Chungking; Australian and British journalists in China; personal journalism awards; building of importance of foreign journalism.

Subjects

• China--History--1949-
• China--History--Civil War, 1945-1949.
• Interviews.
• Journalists--Interviews.
• Korean War, 1950-1953.
• Martin, Robert P.--(Robert Pepper)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rand, Peter, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Vietnam War, 1961-1975.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Peter Rand 1992