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Christopher Temple Emmet Rand (.b New York City -1968 Mexico City) was an American writer who served as an intelligence officer with the Office of War Information in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, then after reporting from Japan, where he shared George Polk Award in 1949, a for many year was a staff writer for the The New Yorker magazine.
Neiman Fellow
He died by suicide in Mexico City at the age of 56.
Early life and education
Wartime China
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Sources and further reading
https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=%22Christopher%2BRand%22
- Rand, Peter (1995). China Hands: The Adventures and Ordeals of the American Journalists Who Joined Forces with the Great Chinese Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster.
- MacKinnon, Stephen R.; Friesen, Oris, eds. (1987). China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930's and 1940's. UC Press E-Books. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520058437.
- Colin Marshall, The Consummate Writer of Place: Christopher Rand in Los Angeles, China, and Beyond, 1943-1968 20 May 2014 Los Angeles Review of Books
- John W. Powell, "The Best and the Brightest—Western Reporting from Asia," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 22.2 (1990/06/01 1990): 55-63. doi: 10.1080/14672715.1990.10413122 https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.1990.10413122
- White, Wallace (12 October 1968), "Christopher Rand", The New Yorker, p. 216
- "Christopher Rand, Writer, Dies: Reported on Diverse Cultures" (PDF), New York Times: 47, 27 September 1968
Selected works
Articles
- "Reporting in the Far East" Lyons, Louis M. ed., Reporting the News: Selections from Nieman Reports, Cambridge, MA and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674366749
Boooks
- Christopher Rand, A Nostalgia for Camels (Boston: Little, Brown, 1957)
- The Puerto Ricans (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958)
- Christopher Rand, The Changing Landscape; Salisbury, Connecticut (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968)
- Christopher Rand, Christmas in Bethlehem, and Holy Week at Mount Athos (New York: Oxford University Press, 1963)
- Cambridge, U.S.A.: Hub of a New World ((New York: Oxford University Press, 1964) =
- Christopher Rand, Hongkong, the Island Between (New York: Knopf; [1st ], 1952)
- Christopher Rand, Los Angeles : The Ultimate City (New York: Oxford University Press, 1967)
- Christopher Rand, Mountains and Water (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965)
- Christopher Rand, The Holy Land at Christmastime (New York: Oxford University Press; Typophiles Monograph ; 74, 1963)
References
External links
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