Far East Reporter
1970 cover page
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| Editor | Maud Russell |
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| Categories | Politics, economics, social issues |
| Frequency | Irregular |
| Year founded | 1952 |
| Final issue | 1989 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
The Far East Reporter was a magazine or newsletter published in New York City on an irregular schedule from 1953 to 1989 by Maud Russell. It took the form of pamphlets that mainly talked sympathetically about China under Mao Zedong.
Maud Russell was the executive director of the Far East Spotlight magazine, which was published from 1946 to 1952 by the Committee for a Democratic Far Eastern Policy (CDFEP). She founded the Far East Reporter in New York City in 1953, and published it until her death in 1989. The newsletter was published on an irregular schedule. Russell had lived in China for 26 years when it was dominated by other countries, and had seen the development of revolutionary nationalism. She used her magazine and speaking tours to explain why the US should recognize the Communist government of China and disengage from Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam. Russell published the views of "experts" on other East and Southeast Asia countries including Vietnam and India, but her main focus was on publishing positive articles about social, political and economic development in China for American readers.
Russell wrote some of the issues herself. Some of the other issues, which were essentially pamphlets on specific topics, were written by well-known people. Russell drew on newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Far Eastern Economic Review and China Reconstructs, and used material sent by CDFEP supporters in the US and China. Russell had been one of a very small group of "progressive" Westerners in 1930s China, and had returned to the US in 1942. Her regular correspondents from the People's Republic of China included Nan Green, David Crook, Elsie Fairfax-Cholmeley, Israel Epstein, Talitha Gerlach, Rewi Alley and (after 1958) Anna Louise Strong. Often their long letters to Russell were not much more than verbatim copies of Xinhua articles.
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