Re; Jack Belden (though sourpuss Carrol won't see this), http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/99-4_00-1NR/Sullivan_The_Crucial.html Hmm, Frida Utley who was on the left and turned rightwards during WWII http://www.fredautley.com/indiansummer.htm >... Even Jack Belden, the most woman-despising of all the newspapermen in China... http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~asiactr/haq/200201/0201a001.htm
And don't forget then Trotskyist reporter, Harold Isaacs who lived in China from the twenties, onwards, see his book on the disastrous to the CCP alliance with the KMT and the '27 massacre.
Stacey, Judith (1983). Patriarchy and Socialist Revolution in China. Berkeley: University of California Press.