Kevin Sinclair
Kevin Sinclair may refer to: * Kevin Sinclair (journalist) Kevin Maxwell Sinclair, MBE, (12 December 1942 – 23 December 2007) was a New Zealand journalist and author who spent more than 50 years reporting the news, over 40 of those in Hong Kong. Early life Sinclair was born in Thornton, Wellington ... * Kevin Sinclair (cricketer) {{hndis, Sinclair, Kevin ...
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Kevin Sinclair (journalist)
Kevin Maxwell Sinclair, Order of the British Empire, MBE, (12 December 1942 – 23 December 2007) was a New Zealand journalist and author who spent more than 50 years reporting the news, over 40 of those in Hong Kong. Early life Sinclair was born in Thornton, Wellington, New Zealand, to 16-year-old Margaret Hocking of Cornish extraction and a mixed Polynesian father who left, never to return, when he was three. A decade later, his mother remarried, and Sinclair did not get along with his stepfather. It was with some relief that, upon completing high school, he left home to take up an opening as a labourer-cadet with the Forestry Service at the age of 16. At 14, he was deeply affected by Edgar Snow's glowing 1937 account of the Communist Party of China, Chinese Communist Party, ''Red Star Over China'', later rating it the book that most influenced his outlook. Career in journalism Sinclair started as a 16-year-old copy boy at the Wellington The Evening Post (New Zealand), '' ...
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