The Motor's Autobiography: Sixty Years of Publishing

Author: Mark
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Publish Date: 2004-11-24
Features: Xu Zhucheng is an old journalist in the pure sense of a newspaper person. Chen Yusun is an old journalist with a cultural background. Ma Da, however, is a seasoned red old journalist. At the age of sixteen, Ma Da joined the revolution and also joined the Communist Party of China in the same year. His journalistic career began with pushing a handcart to publish a mimeographed newspaper. Shouldering rifles and sacks of rice, with hand grenades slung at his waist, he read Ostrovsky's How the Steel Was Tempered and Xia Yan's reportage The Soul of a Man.
This book collects some of the author's memoirs written over a decade, all of which are personal experiences from his time working in journalism. Renowned scholar Wang Yuanhua and famous journalist Fan Jingyi wrote prefaces for this new work by Ma Da. The book also includes the essay An Impression of Ma Da written by the reportage writer Zheng Zhongcai.