Oral history interview with Audrey Topping, 1981
Oral history interview with Audrey Topping, 1981
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- Name
- Topping, Audrey (Interviewee)
- Tanner, Estelle (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Audrey Topping, 1981
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Audrey Topping, 1981
- Abstract
- Experiences of paternal grandparents as missionaries in China (1892-1900); descriptions of China of that time; grandfather's settling in China; experiences of parents as teachers in China (1922-28); childhood and family life in Canada; residence in China during father's service as Canadian ambassador (1946-49); return to Canada; marriage to Seymour Topping; experiences during his Associated Press a ssignments to Saigon (1950-53), London (1953-56), Berlin (1956-60), Times assignment to Moscow (1960-63): including births and raising of daughters, local events, contacts with local people, writing of photojournalistic accounts, artwork; return trips to China with father and including visit to his birthplace, meetings with Chou En-lai and other officials; speculations on changes wrought in China by revolution, physical improvements over time; documentaries there in 1973, 1975, latter including visit to Xian tombs; trips to Tibet and silk route, 1979; Soviet Union and Mongolia, 1981; reflections on personal philosophy; discussions of written and photographic work, international relations including Vietnam, U.S.-China relations
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Photographers; Women photographers; Photojournalism; China Description and travel; China History 1949-; China Politics and government 20th century; Canada Description and travel; Canada Foreign relations; Topping, Audrey
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Photojournalist; interviewee married Seymour Topping
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Estelle N. Tanner
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7145636
- Also In
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/h0zy-f133
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.