Author Heinz-Dietrich Fischer presents readers with a survey of Pulitzer Prize winning journalism, photojournalism, and editorial cartoons covering Asia from 1932 through to 2003. Entries include coverage of the aggression of Japan in China in 1932, Indias struggle for sovereignty in 1948, the first phase of the Vietnam War in 1963, the change of government in Indonesia in 1966, the Indochina boat people fleeing for Thailand in 1977, the fall of Marcos in the Philippines in 1986, the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in 2003, and many others. The author is a retired faculty member of the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This book examines Asian-related, Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage from leading American newspapers. Contents include: (1932) About Quarrels and Aggressions of Japan * (1941) The Growing Strategic Role of Singapore * (1945) The Final War Days and the Surrender of Japan * (1948) The Hard Way to Sovereignty of India * (1950) Early Fighting during the War in Korea * (1963) First Phase of the Bloody War in Vietnam * (1966) The Main Decision Makers for North Vietnam * (1966) The Change of Government in Indonesia * (1971) East Pakistan on the Way to Bangladesh * (1975) The Communists' Strange Rule in Cambodia * (1977) Indochina Boat People Flee to Thailand * (1986) The Marcos System Ends in the Philippines * (1989) Tiananmen Square Killings Shake China * (1996) The Islamic Taliban Terrorists in Afghanistan * (2003) Fall of Saddam Hussein's Regime in Iraq. (Series: Pulitzer Prize Panorama - Vol. 10) [ Subject: Asian Studies, Journalism, Politics]
