The Archive · 1938

China Journal Under New Ownership New Company Formed to Run Popular Magazine

The popular magazine, "The China Journal" has changed ownership an: management, having been taken over by a newly formed company known as The China Journal Publishing Company, Limited, whose office is situated at 117 Hongkong Road. The former proprietors, Mr, and Mr: A. de C. Sowerby, it is learned, still retain an interest in the journal and although relinquishing any a tive participation in the running. of the journal, will continue to act in an advisory capacity The manager of the company is W. V. D. White, who came to China last autumn from Australia, after having spent several years in East Africa, The present editor is Dr. Bruno Kroker, who has been in China some three years as a journalist, and has had considerable editorial experience in Europe and this country,

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