Table of Contents

1. Introduction: John William Powell and the China Weekly/Monthly Review , an American Editor in Early Revolutionary China 2. The Strands of Disillusionment, A Three Year Overview of the China Weekly/Monthly Review , 1946-1948: Part 1 3. The Strands of Disillusionment, Part II: Loss of Faith 4. Seasons Change: The Late Fall 1948 and Impending Collapse 5. Plumbing the Unknown: The Months Prior to Takeover, January-May, 1949 6. Shock and Adjustment to the New Order: The Communists Enter Shanghai, May-September, 1949 7. The Review's Campaign for Recognition, June 1949-July 1950 8. Accommodation and Reassessment: The Winds of Ideological Change 9. The Bacteriological Warfare Issue and the Review , Part I: Antecendents and Controversy 10. The Bacteriological Warfare Issue and the Review , Part II 11. Homecoming and Execration 12. Conclusion

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Neil O'Brien