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The China Journals - Ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s (Paperback)
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The China Journals - Ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s (Paperback)
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These private journals, made available here for the first time,
record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China
in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural
Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of his journey
on his return to England. The visit was a catalogue of
frustrations, which he relates with the verve and irony of a master
narrator who relished the human comedy. His efforts to meet the
real life and mind of China, in whose history and politics he had
long been interested, were blocked at every turn by the resources
of state propaganda and the claustrophobic attention of sullen
Party guides. The visit was arranged by the London-based Society
for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, which was ostensibly committed to
the impartial interchange of culture and ideas. It proved to be run
by a Communist claque whose ruthless methods of control outwitted
the well-connected membership. Back in England, and with help from
MI5, he resolved to get to the bottom of the society's affairs. His
investigations provoked a tumultuous public row which Trevor-Roper,
no shirker of controversy, zestfully traces in these pages. Through
the book, which closes with an account of his visit to Taiwan and
South-East Asia in 1967, there runs the wisdom of historical
perspective that he brought to contemporary events and his lifelong
commitment to the defence of liberal values and practices against
their ideological adversaries.
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