Luce, the China-born founder and publisher of Time magazine, came to China, he learned of White's expertise, the two bonded, and White became the China correspondent for Time during the war. The only job he could find was with China's Ministry of Information.
China Īwarded a Harvard traveling fellowship for a round-the-world journey, White ended up in Chungking (Chongqing), China's wartime capital. In his memoir In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, White describes helping form one of the early Zionist collegiate organizations. Fairbank, who went on to become a leading China scholar and White's longtime friend. He was a student at Boston Latin School, from which he graduated in 1932 from there, he went on to Harvard College, from which he graduated with a B.A. He was raised Jewish, and as a teenager was a member of the socialist-Zionist Hashomer Hatzair youth movement. White was born May 6, 1915, in Dorchester, Boston.
He regained national recognition with The Making of the President 1960, whose combination of interviews, on the ground reporting, and vivid writing were developed in best-selling accounts of the 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1980 presidential elections, and became a model for later journalists. He was the first foreigner to report on the Chinese famine of 1942–43 and helped to draw international attention to the shortcomings of the Nationalist government.Īfter leaving Time, he reported on post-war Europe for popular magazines in the early 1950s, but lost these assignments because of his association with the " Loss of China".
White started his career reporting for Time magazine from wartime China in the 1940s. Theodore Harold White ( Chinese: 白修德, – May 15, 1986) was an American political journalist and historian, known for his reporting from China during World War II and the Making of the President series.
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