Hope, Despair, Control: The 1950s China My Father Saw ...
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| Like father, like daughter: Alexandra Stevenson, a Times correspondent who covers China’s economy from Hong Kong, took a look back at the reporting her father, William Stevenson, did for The Toronto Star and The Star Weekly in the 1950s as one of the first foreign journalists to work in China after the Communist takeover. |
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| Here’s an excerpt from an article she wrote about how much of what he described is still recognizable. |
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| My father left behind written notes and newspaper clippings, stacks of passports with visas, photos and transcripts from his first and subsequent trips to China. They have allowed me to imagine conversations that we might have had in the six years since he died. Conversations about how the country he saw back then — brimming with hope and enthusiasm yet also tightly controlled — is in some ways the same today. |
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| William Stevenson Richard Harrington, via Stephen Bulger Gallery |
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| His first trip to China spanned two months and thousands of miles. He met Mao Zedong (whom he tapped on the shoulder from behind his camera, mistaking the chairman for a “humble courtier” blocking his shot) and Zhou Enlai, the premier and foreign minister at the time. But he also talked with factory workers, actors, newspaper editors and shop owners. |
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| He described being filled with hope for the human spirit he witnessed. But he also felt despair because a government-provided handler was never too far away, ready to silence anyone who veered too far from the Communist Party line. |
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| China defied any broad-brush statement. “And yet,” he wrote in one notebook, “under the current leadership, the way in which the government silences alternative points of view makes it hard not to.” |
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| A version of this exists today. I have a long list of names of people who wouldn’t talk to me because I work for The New York Times, portrayed in Chinese state media as the source of “smears and lies.” Sources I’ve interviewed privately are later threatened by the local police, while stridently nationalist rhetoric dominates the state media. |
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| Several months after I returned to Hong Kong, the Chinese government in March expelled my American colleagues as part of a diplomatic dispute with the United States. In the past month, Beijing has tightened its grip over Hong Kong with a new national security law, threatening free speech and other civil liberties in the city. |
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2013/12/07 - William Stevenson — a journalist and author whose close ties with intelligence sources helped him write two best-selling books in the 1970s, “A Man Called Intrepid” and “90 Minutes at Entebbe,” which he dashed off in little ...
William Stevenson (Canadian writer)
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William Henry Stevenson
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| Born | 1 June 1924 |
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| Died | 26 November 2013 (aged 89)
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| Nationality | Canada |
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| Occupation | author |
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William Henry Stevenson (1 June 1924 – 26 November 2013) was a British-born Canadian author and journalist.
[1]
His 1976 book
A Man Called Intrepid was about
William Stephenson (no relation) and was a best-seller. It was made into a 1979 mini-series starring
David Niven.
[2] Stevenson followed it in 1983 with another book,
Intrepid's Last Case. He published his autobiography in 2012.
In 1976 Stevenson released the book,
90 Minutes at Entebbe.
[3] It was about
Operation Entebbe, an operation where
Israeli commandos landed at night at
Entebbe Airport in
Uganda and succeeded in rescuing the passengers of an airliner hi-jacked by
Palestinian militants, while incurring very few casualties. Stevenson's "instant book" was written, edited, printed and available for sale within weeks of the event it described.
[4][5]
Bibliography[edit]
(This list is incomplete.)
- The Yellow Wind, 1959, Houghton Mifflin Co., Library of Congress No. 59-11830. Reportage on the People's Republic of China between 1954-1957.
- The Bushbabies, 1965, Houghton Mifflin Co., Library of Congress No. 65-2509. Children's story inspired by his own family's adventures in Africa.
- The Bormann Brotherhood, 1973 (non-fiction)
- A Man Called Intrepid, 1976, Harcourt, ISBN 0-15-156795-6. (non-fiction)
- The Ghosts of Africa, 1980, Harcourt, ISBN 978-0-15-135338-5 ISBN 0151353387. Historical fiction set in World War I colonial German East Africa.
- Intrepid's Last Case, 1983, Michael Joseph Ltd, ISBN 0-7181-2441-3. (non-fiction)
- Eclipse, 1986 (fiction)
- Booby Trap, 1987 (fiction)
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam, 1990, Dutton, ISBN 0-525-24934-6. Co-written with his wife Monika Jensen-Stevenson. (non-fiction)
- 90 Minutes at Entebbe, Bantam, ISBN 0-553-10482-9 (non-fiction)
- Strike Zion 1967 (non-fiction)
- Zanek!; A Chronicle of the Israeli Force (non-fiction)
- The Revolutionary King: : the true-life sequel to the King and I, 2001, Constable and Robinson, ISBN 1-84119-451-4.
- Spymistress: The Life of Vera Atkins, the Greatest Female Secret Agent of World War II, 2006, Arcade Publishing, ISBN 978-1-55970-763-3. (biography)
- Past to Present: A Reporter's Story of War, Spies, People, and Politics, Lyons Press, 2012.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ "William Stevenson, author of A Man Called Intrepid, dies". CBC News. 2013-11-27. Retrieved 2013-12-06.
- ^ "A Man Called Intrepid (1979) - Peter Carter | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
- ^ "Instant book out on Entebbe raid". The Saturday Citizen. 1976-07-23. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
The book in both English and Hebrew editions is to be on sale within weeks of the July 4 Israeli raid.
- ^ Roger Cohen (1990-09-07). "Crisis in Iraq Inspires Spate of Books". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-05-13. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
Instant books have enjoyed a considerable vogue since Bantam's success in 1976 with 90 Minutes at Entebbe, a book about the Israeli raid in Uganda.
- ^ Timothy Leary. "Turning News Into Movies: The Making Of the Deal". Esquire magazine. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
90 Minutes at Entebbe, by William Stevenson, was available to readers July 25, just twenty-two days after the raid.
- ^ Ross, Oakland (Oct 20, 2012). "William Stevenson: The Star's one-man foreign service". Toronto Star. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
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