David Oancia (December 6, 1929 – January 18, 1995) was a Canadian journalist.[1] He worked for several press,[2][3][4] primarily The Globe and Mail.[5][6][7] He is best known as the only resident non-communist North American correspondent in Beijing reporting on China’s cultural revolution during the late 1960s.[8][9] His contributions have been cited in numerous books,[8][10] academic journals,[11][12] and other publishings.[13][14]
David Oancia | |
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| Born | David Oancia December 6, 1929 Stonehenge, Saskatchewan, Canada |
| Died | January 18, 1995 (aged 65) Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | The Globe and Mail |
| Spouse | Maria Asuncion Prieto-Cereceda |
| Children | Patrick Oancia, David Oancia |
Life and career
editDavid Oancia was born in Stonehenge, Saskatchewan on December 6, 1929, to Romanian immigrant parents. In his teenage years he worked in the Yukon in the fur trade.[15] In 1952, he began work as a journalist at the Moose Jaw Times-Herald, and later worked at the Regina Leader-Post and the Canadian Press in Canada, Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.[16]
In 1963 he started working at The Globe and Mail, and in two years became the newspaper's correspondent in China where he was the last non-communist reporter. In 1967, he received the National Newspaper Awards for his coverage and journalistic excellence.[17]
In 1971 he returned to Canada to work at the Montreal Star. In 1974 he became director of Journalism at the Sir George Williams College at Concordia University. In 1979 he was named director of CBC Television News in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1982 he was appointed director of Information for the University of New Brunswick, and in 1984 he became editor at the Saint John Telegraph-Journal and Evening Times-Globe.[18] He died in Saint John, New Brunswick on January 18, 1995, at the age of 65.[15][19]
References
edit- ^ "The New China". The McGill Daily. 56 (38). November 9, 1966. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ "Assignment China". Independent Press-Telegram from Long Beach, California: 154. October 31, 1971. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ "Chinese Told: Go All Out and Fight Drought". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Soviet-Chinese Animosity Found Along the Frontier". New York Times.
- ^ "South China Post, Cleansing of the Party". Taiwan Info.
- ^ "Foreign Views". Taiwan Today.
- ^ Palmer, Brian (29 Mar 2008). Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442693357.
- ^ a b Taylor, Charles (1984). China Hands: The Globe and Mail in Peking. McClelland & Stewart. ISBN 978-0771084362.
- ^ "When Fear Became the Constant Companion of Millions". The Ottawa Journal from Ottawa: 115. 1971. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ Cohen, Jerome (1970). Contemporary Chinese Law: Research Problems and Perspectives, Volume 4. Harvard University Press Press. ISBN 9780674166752.
- ^ Cheng, Peter (1972). A chronology of the People's Republic of China from October 1, 1949. Rowman and Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-87471-099-1.
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- ^ Janet, Salaaf (1980). "Mortality Decline in the People's Republic of China and the United States". Congressional Quarterly, Inc. 27 (3). Taylor & Francis, Ltd: 551–576. doi:10.2307/2173772. JSTOR 2173772.
- ^ "Pecking Fights Class Drought". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ "Department of Defense appropriations for 1967: Hearings, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session, Parts 5-6". U.S. Govt. Print. 1980. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ a b "University of Regina Library". University of Regina. Retrieved 30 August 2022.
- ^ "China: U.S. Policy Since 1945". Congressional Quarterly, Inc: 171. 1980. ISBN 9780871871886. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
- ^ Bush, Richard (1970). Religion in Communist China. Abingdon Press. ISBN 9780687360154.
- ^ "Top of the Week". News Week. 1967.
- ^ "Journalist covered China during Cultural Revolution". Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Edmonton Journal. 28 January 1995. p. 3. Retrieved 17 November 2023.