THE WEEKLY REVIEW OF THE FAR EAST: LATER KNOWN AS THE "THE CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW."

Shanghai 1019-1924, Millard. Original stiff wrappers, ca. 22 x 31.8 cm., English, map, usual minor paper "toning," a few minor mends, contents clean & solid,seldom found, all in the original covers. * * RARE FIRST & ONLY EDITION * * . . *** **** *** . . SELDOM FOUND OM THE ORIGINAL STATE . . . A LONG RUN OF THE ORIGINAL JOURNAL FROM 1919-1924 . . . CONSISTING OF 71 ISSUES . * A fascinating journal loaded with the latest news, facts, statistics & insights to current events. . *** This journal was first published in under the name: MILLARD'S REVIEW OF THE FAR EAST, Published Weekly at Shanghai, co-founded by Thomas F.F. Millard [1868-1942] who was an American journalist & newspaper editor with John Benjamin Powell. . He was author of seven influential books on the Far East and first American political adviser to the Chinese Republic, serving for over fifteen years. Millard was "the founding father of American journalism in China," and "the dean of American newspapermen in the Orient." He probably had a greater influence on contemporary newspaper journalism than any other American journalist in China. He covered the Boxer Uprising, the Russo-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War; See Wikipedia article. . In 1922, the journal change names to become the "CHINA WEEKLY REVIEW" The Chinese name was MI LE SHIH PING LN PAO. . This journal was published by the Millard Publishing Co., incorporated in Delaware, U.S.A. . John B. Powell [1886-1947] was the co-editor and manager, along with Hollington K. Tong assistant editor, Peking. Issued 52 times a year. . He had been a co-founder of the tiny publication, the China Weekly Review (originally Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard's Review of the Far East, 1922 renamed Weekly Review of the Far East, 1923 renamed The China Weekly Review, retaining the Chinese heading Mìlè Pínglúnbào. Hollington K. Tong assistant editor, issued 52 times a year. . He was held for ransom by Chinese bandits, covered the civil wars in China, the Japanese invasion of Manchuria was imprisoned & tortured by the Japanese. . * The journal was inherited by John's son, John William Powell [1919-2008], who was a journalist and small business proprietor, who became the editor, in Shanghai. . John W. Powell was tried for sedition in 1952 after publishing an article that reported on allegations made by Mainland Chinese officials that the United States and Japan we're carrying out germ warfare in the Korean War. In 1956, the Eisenhower Administration's Department of Justice pressed sedition charges against Powell, his wife Sylvia, and Julian Schuman, after federal prosecutors secured grand jury indictments against them for publishing allegations of bacteriological warfare. However, the prosecutors failed to get any convictions. The defendants invoked their Constitutional right to refuse to reveal self-incriminating evidence, and U.S. Department of Defense officials also refused to provide any incriminating archives or witnesses. This information was not revealed until decades later as a result of Freedom of Information Act requests. . All three of the defendants were acquitted of all charges over the next six years, after a Federal judge dismissed the core aspects of the case against them in 1959, due to obviously insufficient evidence against them. . The contents are issued under subjects & headings; . Editorial Photographs . Special Articles: consisting of e.g. five or more essays by leading authors & exponents of trade, diplomacy, economics, trade law, alliances news from North, Central, South China, foreign policy, Japanese related, labor and the whole gambit. Captains of industry, finance et al. . Notes From Peking . Who's Who in China . News Summary of the Week . Men and Events . An Appeal for American Women to Cooperate in the Anti-Opium Campaign . Far Eastern Press Opinion . Finance and Commerce . New Books and Publications . In The United States Court for China. . The journal is loaded with a wide variety of period adverts. . *** This journal tackles the hard and controversial issues, rendering expert opinion and factual evidence. an influential journal, writing about issues important to Americans and the world at large. Such great i.e. as: . THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST EARLY MARRIAGE IN CHINA AMERICA & THE RECONSTRUCTION OF RUSSIA TRADE-MARKS IN CHINA AMERICANS ON THE SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL COUNCIL REVIEW OF CHINA'S FINANCES OPIUM ISSUES & ANTI-OPIUM AMERICAN CAMPAIGN . Other timely subjects liberally contained: business, politics, war, domestic products, trademarks, government, constitution, agriculture, manufacturing, currency, gold, railways, militarism, Manchuria [Japanese in & resources], the Lansing-Ishii Agreement, "Gentleman's Agreement," Anglo-Japanese Agreement, banking, finance, foreign trade, law, justice, supreme court, opium, American-China relations, trade, American Embassy, Chinese students in America, KMT rule, Shanghai stock exchange, Canton, Peking &c. . *** CONTRIBUTORS: . The journal had a large host of famous, eminent authors, "old China Hands," Sinologists, missionaries, scholars, experts, diplomats, Captains of industry, including: Hollington K. Tong, J.B. Powell, Upton Close, H.F. Hsu Shih Chang, Verne Dyson, Demetrius C. Boulger, W.S.A. Pott, Orrin Keith, Hon S.K. Alfred Sze, C.F. Remer, George H. Fairchild, O.M. Green, Julian Arnold, H.H. Rowbotham, government ministers, foreign missionaries, Americans, British, shipping activities, list of cargo, destinations &. . *** NOTE: There are 2 issues for July 17, 1920: A special issue + the usual issue. Each separately bound as usual. . *** Color photos are posted to our website. . *** THE RUN: Consists of many consecutive issues. . 1919 Jan.-December 5 issues 1920 " " 20 " 1921 " " 27 " 1922 " " 17 1924 March-April 2 " . *** CONDITION: . The journal is bound in the publisher's original limp wrappers, with two [rusty] staples in the spine. The journal is firm, solid, with typical paper 'toning' for an item over 100 years old, with an occasional bit of minor foxing, minimal at best. . There is some of the usual 'dustiness' to the covers, contents is very bright, clean & fresh. A couple issues have some old pencil notes on the front covers, erased with remains partially visible, minimal impact. Otherwise not distractions to the covers or text. Far better than the usual examples. Seldom found in such very good condition. . A few mended 'dog ears' unfolded and pressed down, a couple have been restored in the distant past using Washi [handmade] Japanese mulberry fiber paper for strength and solidarity. . There is an old rubber stamp on the lower right back cover corner reading:" SHANGHAI NEWSPAPER STAND Sung Sing Kee Nanking Hotel," on several issues, otherwise clean. . *** REFERENCE: . OCLC 9189559 * POWELL, John B.: My Twenty-five Years In China (China in the Twentieth Century) . --. CHINA: Today On The China Coast. * See Wikipedia on Millard and his list of writings. See Wikipedia for both Powell's * Cavanaugh, Jerome, ed. Who's Who in China, 1918-1950 . * .