Motor self-introduction -- Six decades of newspaper career

Author: Mark Zuo
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: Xu Zhucheng is an old journalist in the pure sense of the word. Chen Yusun is an old journalist with a cultural background. Ma Da, on the other hand, 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 How the Steel Was Tempered by Ostrovsky and Xia Yan's reportage The Soul of a Man Served by a Maid. This book collects some of the author's memoirs written over a decade, all of which are based on his firsthand experiences 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 Impressions of Ma Da written by the reportage writer Zheng Zhongcai.