新生周刊

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What are your thoughts on 杜重遠, the journalist and entrepreneur from northeast China who brought frontline accounts of World War 2 in China?

He operated much like a freelance journalist, and often got into trouble for writing editorials in the Shanghai-based 新生周刊 that criticized the Chiang regime as well as the Japanese. He was highly critical of Chiang Kai-shek's non-resistance policy towards Japan. In 1935, Chiang's government prosecuted him for writing an editorial that insulted the Japanese emperor.

Prior to becoming a journalist, he was a porcelain entrepreneur in northeastern China who left the region after the 1931 invasion of Manchuria.

When war started in 1937, he was at the front lines reporting vivid accounts of civilian life in wartime. He lived in a time of popular mass journalism where he could utilize his individualistic, journalist talents.

In 1943, Du was offered a job as head of a university in Xinjiang. The person who got him that job turned against him after suspicions of Du collaborating with the Communists arose. As a result, Du was executed in prison shortly afterwards.