Love and journalism in wartime China: An interview with Bill Lascher

Sinica Podcast

Kaiser Kuo

Currentaffairs, Business, News, China Politics, Shenzhen, Chinese, Chongqing, China News, Politics, China, Culture, Sichuan, Hangzhou, Beijing, International Relations, China Economy, Chengdu, Film, Shanghai, Guangzhou

4.7 • 710 Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When journalist Bill Lascher received an old typewriter from his grandmother and was told it belonged to “my cousin the war correspondent,” he set off on a search to learn more about the life of Melville (“Mel”) Jacoby, who reported from the front lines of the conflict in China during World War II. Mel and his wife, Annalee Whitmore Jacoby, met many of the key figures of the day, from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to General Douglas MacArthur; worked as propagandists for the KMT; and ended up fleeing from Manila to hide in the caves beneath Corregidor with MacArthur’s troops. In this podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy talk to Bill about his discovery of the fascinating life story of his first cousin twice removed: from Mel’s romance with his wife, Annalee, to his multimedia journalism, and from his harrowing brushes with the Japanese to his evolving attitudes toward China. You can also read an excerpt from Eve of a Hundred Midnights and find a list of background reading materials here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cynical Podcast.
0:10.7	We have the discussion of current affairs in China, produced in partnership with SubChina.
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0:31.9	the world. I'm Kaiser Gwa, joined here in the Seneca South Studio in downtown Durham, North Carolina
0:36.7	by Jeremy Goldcorn here for undisclosed author of the state's notoriously discriminatory law
0:41.0	HP2, the so-called bathroom bill, which he has actually scuriously and hypocritically
0:47.6	attacked on this show when everyone knows he secretly fears nothing, nothing I say more than he
0:52.7	fears transgender people catching a glimpse of his
0:55.6	privates.
0:56.7	But you're safe here, Jeremy, in North Carolina.
0:59.9	Yeah, I know.
1:01.3	Unfortunately, I've got to go back to Nashville, Tennessee, uh, uh, this afternoon.
1:05.9	And I have no such protection there.
1:08.3	But you stay here has been otherwise... It's lovely.
1:11.6	North Carolina is delightful.
1:13.1	I'm glad.
1:13.9	And I hope you felt at home here in our new studio, our lovely digs.
1:18.4	Oh, yes.
1:19.3	So a couple of weeks ago on this podcast, as you will recall, I plugged a book called
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