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...reportage, and the account turns leaden, leaving readers craving the terse economy of the writer's original articles; too much indulgence in personal reminiscence, and the result can be cloying and sentimental. But in Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution, Roy Rowan gets the ingredients just right, providing an account that has both factual heft and robust flavor...
...Rowan, whose career at TIME and its sister publications LIFE and FORTUNE spanned more than five decades, recalls the events that gave fitful birth to the People's Republic of China with a swashbuckling ebullience that has long fallen out of fashion in journalism. He recounts his adventures dodging bullets and chasing down major historical figures with an immediacy that belies the years that have since passed. But his expertise as a longtime observer of China also lends authoritative weight to the yarn of a boyishly enthusiastic and seemingly new reporter...
...memoir begins with Rowan's early days in Shanghai as a recruit for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, helping its Nationalist-run counterpart shepherd U.S. aid shipments through China's countryside amid the chaos that followed World War II. The 26-year-old finds himself in what he calls "the kingdom of squeeze," where truckloads of rations, clothing and military supplies often fall prey to Nationalist strongmen who are as intent on lining their own pockets as on preventing the country from slipping into Communist control. Stationed in Shanghai and then Kaifeng, Rowan develops both a sympathy...
...After a year of careening over dirt roads and through volleys of bullets, Rowan begins to wonder why he's "risking [his] rear end running a bunch of trucks through some other country's civil war." He quits his job and reluctantly plans to leave China, until a chance meeting in a bar with TIME's China bureau chief changes his fate. Having secured an invitation to LIFE's New York headquarters, Rowan is hired as the magazine's sole correspondent covering the civil war. This new assignment soon proves almost as dangerous as his previous job. Together with photographer...
Genie is the story of Mooney O’Tooley (Rowan Sheldon ’08)—a nerdy freshman with intentions of starting anew who falls in love with Sweetie Connors (Sara Jayne Blackmore, a student at the New England Conservatory). Frustratingly, she is an heiress afflicted with multiple personalities, each of them out of his league. Dejected, he heads to a bar to drown his sorrows; while there, however, he discovers a soulful and mischievous genie in a bottle (La’Tarsha Long on Dec.15 and 19 and Anita Murrell on Dec. 16-18, both...