Three Months in Mao's China - Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution (Paperback, 0)

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zurcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zurcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China became a nuclear power, Zurcher experienced the reality of China under Mao Zedong. Only recently discovered, these documents portray, viewed through an expert's eye, a land in the midst of its own massive political, social, and economic change. Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian history as a whole.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Asian History
Release date:	February 2017
Editors:	Erik Jan Zurcher • Kim Zouw
Translators:	Vivien Collingwood
Dimensions:	210 x 135 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	144
Edition:	0
ISBN-13:	978-9462981812
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Marxism & Communism Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > Travel writing > General Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General Books > Travel > Travel writing > General Promotions
LSN:	9462981817
Barcode:	9789462981812

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