Which New Zealand-born press reporter was seen as a leftist communist sympathiser, in Jasper Becker's "Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine"?
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Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine is a book written by Jasper Becker, the Beijing bureau chief for the South China Morning Post. Becker argues that the American press reported the Great Chinese Famine with accuracy, but leftists and communist sympathisers such as Edgar Snow, Rewi Alley, and Anna Louise Strong, remained silent or played down its severity, when Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward had turned into a horrible tragedy. Becker concludes that the tragedy could have been averted after the first year if Mao's senior advisers had dared to confront him.
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Rewi Alley Rewi Alley, 路易•艾黎, Lùyì Àilí, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': "QSO, MM", '4': "} (2 December 1897 – 27 December 1987), was a New Zealand-born writer, educator, political activist, revolutionary, social reformer, potter, and member of the Communist Party of China.
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Communist Party of Aotearoa The Communist Party of Aotearoa is a Maoist political party which formed in 1993 as a split from the Communist Party of New Zealand, which had formerly been Maoist, but was then drifting towards Trotskyism.
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Jason Burke Jason Burke (born 1970) is a British journalist and the author of several non-fiction books. A correspondent covering Africa for "The Guardian", he is currently based in Johannesburg, having previously been based in New Delhi as the same paper's South Asia correspondent. In his years of journalism, Burke has addressed a wide range of topics including politics, social affairs and culture in Europe and the Middle East. He has written extensively on Islamic extremism and, among numerous other conflicts, covered the wars of 2001 in Afghanistan and 2003 in Iraq, the latter of which he described as "entirely justifiable from a humanitarian perspective".
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Peter Williams (broadcaster) Peter Allan Williams (born 6 March 1954) is a New Zealand television presenter and sports writer.
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Binney Lock Edmund Binney Lock, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (21 May 1932 – 16 November 2014) was a New Zealand journalist, and editor of "The Press" newspaper in Christchurch from 1978 to 1990.
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Rō Takenaka Rō Takenaka (竹中労 , Takenaka Rō , born Tsutomu, May 30, 1930 – May 19, 1991) was a Japanese reporter, anarchist and critic born in Tokyo. He was the son of the artist and activist . Expelled from the Russian language department of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, he went on to write about various subjects in the worlds of politics and culture under the pseudonyms "Yumeno Kyōtarō," "Kenka Takenaka" and "Hankotsu-no-Reporter" ("literally": "Rebellious Reporter") among others. He also wrote several books on Japanese film history. In his final years he continued his journalistic activities, despite suffering from and ultimately dying of cancer.
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Connie Birchfield Constance Alice "Connie" Birchfield (27 July 1898 – 9 May 1994) was a New Zealand housekeeper, trade unionist, hotel maid, communist, bookseller and political activist. She was born in Haydock, Lancashire, England on 27 July 1898.
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Lizzie Frost Rattray Lizzie Frost Rattray (1855–1931) was a New Zealand journalist, suffragist and welfare worker. She was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand in 1855 to Mary Lister and Archdeacon John Albert Fenton, but her family returned to Europe for the children's education. After their return to New Zealand Lissie married William Rattray a prosperous Auckland draper. After initial interest in charity work for the St John Ambulance, Lizzie moved on to suffrage and other feminist causes, using her position as a journalist to get her message heard. Writing for the "Gentlewoman" and the "New Zealand Graphic" she wrote about employment, education and the franchise. She was elected to the Women's Franchise League and instrumental in opening membership to men.
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Elizabeth Becker Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning author and journalist who covered national and international affairs as a New York Times correspondent and was a member of the staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She was the Senior Foreign Editor of National Public Radio where she received two DuPont-Columbia Awards as executive producer for reporting of South Africa’s first democratic elections and the Rwanda genocide. She began her career as a war correspondent for "The Washington Post" covering Cambodia. She is the author of "When the War Was Over, a modern history of Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge," for which she won a Robert F. Kennedy book citation.
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Hardial Bains Hardial Bains (Punjabi: ਹਰਦਿਆਲ ਬੈਂਸ ) (15 August 1939 – 24 August 1997) was a microbiology student and teacher, primarily known as the founder of a series of left-wing movements and parties foremost of which was the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist) (CPC (ML)). Presenting himself as staunchly anti-revisionist and pro-Stalinist, until his death, Bains acted the spokesperson and ideological leader of the CPC (ML) -- known in elections as the Marxist-Leninist Party of Canada. During span of his life, Bains' outlook swung from supporting the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, to Mao Zedong's China, then later to Enver Hoxha's Albania. Shortly before he died, and abandoning his previous sharp criticisms of the country, Bains turned to Fidel Castro's Cuba for inspiration. Spending most of his life in Canada, Bains was also politically active in England, Ireland and India.
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The Australian Communist The Australian Communist was a weekly newspaper published from Sydney, Australia between 24 December 1920 and 29 April 1921. The newspaper was the official organ of the Communist Party of Australia. In total, 19 issues of "The Australian Communist" were published. Tom Glynn served as the editor of "The Australian Communist" until 25 March 1921. For the last issues C.W. Baker served as the editor. The newspaper was replaced by "The Communist".
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Tim Selwyn Tim Selwyn (born 1974, Takapuna) is a New Zealand political activist who was found guilty of sedition on 8 June 2006, the first person charged with sedition in New Zealand for more than 30 years. He is also editor of Tumeke! magazine, has a blog with the same name.
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Jiang Weiping Jiang Weiping (; born c. 1955) is a veteran mainland Chinese journalist known internationally for his arrest by the Communist Party of China in 2001.
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Bernadette Hall Bernadette Hall {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 1945 in Alexandra, New Zealand) is a New Zealand writer and poet. She was raised in what she describes as "a small-city Catholic community that was proud, theatrical and pretty much enclosed." After a career as a teacher of Latin and classical studies she started writing full-time in her forties. She has held residencies at both Canterbury University and Victoria University and is widely published. She spent 10 years as the editor of "Takahe" magazine and five as the poetry editor of "The Press", Christchurch's main daily newspaper.
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Harry Holland Henry Edmund "Harry" Holland (10 June 1868 – 8 October 1933) was an Australian-born newspaper owner, politician and unionist who relocated to New Zealand. He was the second leader of the New Zealand Labour Party.
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William Walter Mulholland Sir William Walter Mulholland {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (8 January 1887 – 9 November 1971) was a notable New Zealand farmer and farmers' union leader. He was born in Greendale, North Canterbury, New Zealand on 8 January 1887.
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Pat Brittenden Pat Brittenden (born 1973) is a New Zealand broadcaster, blogger and political commentator.
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Joseph Romanos Joseph Romanos (born 1957) is a New Zealand journalist, author and broadcaster focusing mainly on sport.
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Philip Josephs Philip Josephs (25 November 1876 – 26 April 1946) was a Jewish anarchist, anti-militarist, radical bookseller and tailor active in the New Zealand labour movement. He was a member of the Wellington branch of the New Zealand Socialist Party, ran their economics class and contributed to their paper, the "Commonweal". He helped revive the Anti-Militarist League in Wellington in 1912, and was elected secretary. On 9 July 1913 he helped launch New Zealand's first anarchist collective, Freedom Group, which lasted for a year. He was arrested during a police raid for possessing banned literature in 1915.
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People's correspondent People's correspondents are a kind of amateur proletarian journalists who have filed reports from the frontlines about the march toward communism since the early years of the Soviet Union. Originally initiated by Vladimir Lenin as a tool for exposing mismanagement and corruption, several million people worked as people's correspondents in their heyday. At the 17th Party Congress in 1934, Joseph Stalin said there were more than 3 million worker and agriculture correspondents.
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Archibald Baxter Archibald McColl Learmond Baxter (13 December 1881 – 10 August 1970) was a New Zealand socialist, pacifist and conscientious objector.