Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard

Thomas Franklin Fairfax Millard (July 8, 1868, in Missouri – September 7, 1942, in Seattle, Washington)[1][2][3][4] was an American journalist, newspaper editor, founder of the China Weekly Review, author of seven influential books on the Far East[5] and first American political adviser to the Chinese Republic,[6] serving for over fifteen years. Millard was "the founding father of American journalism in China",[7] and "the dean of American newspapermen in the Orient,"[8] who "probably has had a greater influence on contemporary newspaper journalism than any other American journalist in China.”[9] Millard was a war correspondent for the New York Herald[10] during the Spanish–American War, the Boer War, the Boxer Uprising, the Russo-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War; he also had articles appear in such publications as The New York Times, New York World, New York Herald, New York Herald Tribune, Scribner's Magazine, The Nation and The Cosmopolitan, as well as in Britain's Daily Mail and the English-language Kobe Weekly Chronicle of Japan.[11] Millard was the Shanghai correspondent for The New York Times from 1925.[12] Millard was involved in the Twain-Ament Indemnities Controversy, supporting the attacks of Mark Twain on American missionary William Scott Ament.

  1. ^ Washington Death Index, 1940–1996, Certificate: 3575.; However, another source indicates he died on September 8, 1942, see obituary: The New York Times (September 9, 1942):23; http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10B1FF63558167B93CBA91782D85F468485F9&scp=1&sq=9+september+1942+millard&st=p Archived June 13, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Mitchel P. Roth and James Stuart Olson, eds., Historical Dictionary of War Journalism (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997):203–204).
  3. ^ Stephen R. MacKinnon and Oris Friesen, eds., China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s (Berkeley: University of California Press):xxii; 1987. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft1s2004h3 Archived August 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine; http://www.escholarship.org/editions/view?docId=ft1s2004h3&chunk.id=d0e85&toc.depth=1&toc.id=&brand=ucpress;query=millard#1 Archived August 17, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Leung Larson, Jane (November 2007), "Articulating China's First Mass Movement: Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao, the Baohuanghui, and the 1905 Anti-American Boycott" (PDF), Twentieth-Century China, 33 (1): 17, retrieved April 2, 2009
  5. ^ French, 30.
  6. ^ Time (September 21, 1942), [1]. Retrieved April 7, 2009.
  7. ^ Mordechai Rozanski, in MacKinnon and Friesen, 23.
  8. ^ John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography (Indiana University Press, 1988):20.
  9. ^ J.B. Powell, "The Journalistic Field," in American University Men in China 1936; quoted in "Yankee Journalists in old China" (February 19, 2008); http://www.historic-shanghai.com/?p=52 Archived June 1, 2008, at the Wayback Machine (accessed April 2, 2009). Millard founded and edited The China Press in 1911, and from 1917 founded Millard’s Review of the Far East (In June 1923 renamed The China Weekly Review) and edited by J.B. Powell).
  10. ^ You, Li (December 2008). "The Military Versus the Press: Japanese Military Controls Over One U.S. Journalist, John B. Powell, in Shanghai During the Sino-Japanese War, 1937–1941", A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts" (PDF). p. 35.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Starts a Paper in Shanghai: Thomas F. Millard of St. Louis to be Editor of The Press" (PDF). The New York Times. August 30, 1911. p. 6. Retrieved April 2, 2009.
  12. ^ John Maxwell Hamilton, Edgar Snow: A Biography (LSU Press, 2003):xvi.