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[Only registered and activated users can see links] Notes from China
Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Published: 1972
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 10 MB
A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.
During the summer of 1972--a few short months after Nixon's legendary visit to China--master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements. The resulting reportage was one of the first evenhanded portrayals of Chinese culture that Americans had ever read.
Tuchman's observations capture the people as they lived, from workers in the city and provincial party bosses to farmers, scientists, and educators. She demonstrates the breadth and scope of her expertise in discussing the alleviation of famine, misery, and exploitation; the distortion of cultural and historical inheritances into ubiquitous slogans; news media, schools, housing, and transportation; and Chairman Mao's...
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Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
Published: 1972
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Extension: EPUB
Size: 10 MB
A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize--winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.
During the summer of 1972--a few short months after Nixon's legendary visit to China--master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements. The resulting reportage was one of the first evenhanded portrayals of Chinese culture that Americans had ever read.
Tuchman's observations capture the people as they lived, from workers in the city and provincial party bosses to farmers, scientists, and educators. She demonstrates the breadth and scope of her expertise in discussing the alleviation of famine, misery, and exploitation; the distortion of cultural and historical inheritances into ubiquitous slogans; news media, schools, housing, and transportation; and Chairman Mao's...
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