Comments on: United States Wartime Propaganda in China

By: K. M. Lawson

K. M. Lawson — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:25:54 +0000

Thanks for fixing that error! WA was part of the name…doh…I guess I should have realized that, I guess I assumed it was a position or other code. This means my identification of others in the posting could be wrong too.

By: CW Hayford

CW Hayford — Fri, 02 May 2008 15:57:40 +0000

“W.A.. Fairbank” is Wilma Fairbank, who worked for OWI during the war. She wrote a history of the general operation, America’s Cultural Experiment in China, 1942-1949 (Washington: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of State, 1976. Cultural Relations Programs of the U.S. Department of State: Historical Studies 1).

By: Ducks in a Row : Left Flank

Ducks in a Row : Left Flank — Fri, 25 May 2007 03:55:23 +0000

[...] K.M. Lawson posts Office of War Information (OWI) public diplomacy guidelines, and some of them actually make good policy. I think it’s wrong to call these guidelines by the pejorative term "propaganda", though. When considering the damage caused by Sneed article during the Virginia Tech episode, where a reporter initially identified Korean-American Seung Hui Cho as "Chinese", there is something to say for some government agency taking an interest in what the repercussions of comments by American officials and citizens might be. [...]

By: Transpacific Triangle » links for 2007-05-12 by Graham Webster

Transpacific Triangle » links for 2007-05-12 by Graham Webster — Sat, 12 May 2007 07:21:41 +0000

[...] Frog in a Well – The China History Group Blog While looking through 1945-50 US State Department documents—the same collection where I came accross Zhu De’s request for a $20 million US loan to buy off puppet soldiers-I came across over 150 pages of China Regional Directives from the Office of War [...]

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Fri, 11 May 2007 05:25:20 +0000

Nice to know our propoganda guys were on top of things…. This would make for an interesting historiography exercise, actually.