ABSTRACT
With the surrender of Japan, Bill Powell’s propaganda work with General Clair Chenault’s Fourteenth Airforce was over. Still in the employ of the Office of War Information, Powell was flown from Kunming just two weeks after VJ-Day, to Shanghai and the former offices of his father’s China Weekly Review, defunct since 1941.1 He found the premises in disarray, the library looted, even the light switches and wiring ripped from the walls.2 Gathering about him new and former staff members, Powell resumed publication on December 1, 1945. His father, too ill to return to China, remained in the United States and had little to do with the resurrected Review.
