"This bibliography attempts to open an additional area of research to scholars interested in the years of Asian journalism prior to about 1960. The bibliography is eclectic and its' scope ambiguous. It is addressed to the researcher in journalism who has little background in the Asian area and little knowledge of the bibliographical complexity of the Asian field. The scope is hedged by generalities and the careful reader will find many exceptions; however, the main emphasis is asymptomatically defined by the following parameteres: 1. pre-1960; 2. historical and descriptive; 3. newspapers; 4. China; 5. Southeast Asia, primarily Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia; 6. Chinese press in the United States; 7. secondary materials." (Introduction)

"The authors tell us that this volume was entirely computer processed, "a fact of little importance except to demonstrate the comparative ease with which a general purpose computer can be used to print a bibliography." It may have been easy to print, but it is difficult to use and read. More than 2,000 books, articles, essays, and theses on the "communication process" in China and Southeast Asia are listed in this printout. (No items on Korea can be found.) Most are English-language sources, published before 1960 and deal with print journalism. Radio and television receive less attention. Parker and Parker say that Lent's Asian Mass Communications (1975), among other sources, should be consulted first." (Jo A. Cates: Journalism - a guide to the reference literature. Englewood, Col.: Libraries Unlimited, 2nd ed. 1997 nr. 90)