From reviews of the cloth edition:
"["The Man Who Stayed Behind"] reads like a riveting historical
novel. But there's no fiction here . . . it's Mao Zedong and Zhou
Enlai, the Long March, solitary confinement, despair, romance, and
redemption. Sidney Rittenberg's story is a classic."--Mike Wallace,
CBS-TV "60 Minutes
"
"I found "The Man Who Stayed Behind" hard to put down. No American
has ever merged as fully, hopefully--and disastrously--with
Communist China as Rittenberg did for four decades from the 1940s.
The book is lively, poignant, and revealing. Rittenberg offers a
window on Beijing politics that anyone seriously interested in
China's recent past and likely future should read."--Ross Terrill,
author of "China in Our Time
""Rittenberg has written a modern "Pilgrim's Progress," in which he
wanders through thirty-five years of Chinese power struggles with
his idealism--or perhaps naivete--astoundingly intact."--Russell
Watson, "Newsweek
"
"Sidney Rittenberg has had one of the most remarkable lives of
anyone I have ever met. The story of his life is not only a
fascinating and valuable witness to one of the greatest historical
upheavals of [the twentieth] century, but is a vivid testimony to
the power of good in the midst of evil."--Billy Graham
"An extraordinary and revealing account of how someone was swept
into the Chinese Communist movement and stayed with it through its
many blunders, excesses, and cruelties. . . . A fascinating
autobiography--honest, moving, chilling, and quite
illuminating."--Dr. Michel Oksenberg, Former National Security
Council Aid on China Policy
"For more than a decade, I have been recording Chinese stories of
hope, imprisonment, and disillusion. Nowhere is that story told
more poignantly, honestly, or compellingly than in this book. . . .
[It] is fascinating, excruciatingly honest, painful to read, and
destined to be a classic in the literature of gods that have
failed."--Anne F. Thurston, the "Boston Globe
""The gripping saga of an expatriate whose extraordinary
experiences left him without illusions about Marxism--but with his
personal ideals triumphantly intact."--"Kirkus Reviews
""Rittenberg lived a strange life, but he is not a stranger. Seen
from the inside, his 'life of perks, privilege, and deluded
complicity' makes sense. In the ultimate test of good
autobiography, we see with a shock how it could have been
us."--Andrew J. Nathan, the "Washington Post
"
"In a class by itself . . . . This story is off the wall,
amazing, unbelievably funny and sad. . . . What I want to know is:
Where are the miniseries people?"--Carolyn See, the "Los Angeles
Times
"""The Man Who Stayed Behind" hooked me from start to finish. These
are rare, tragic, sometimes startling insights into Mao's China at
its self-destructive worst. Whether you sympathize with Sidney
Rittenberg or not (and there will be times when you have doubts) he
was there as history was made and unmade, and became part of its
scar tissue. His prison portrait of Madame Mao as the shrieking
harridan of the Red Terror will stay with me a long time. And his
own personal story is an amazing tale in its own right."--Sterling
Seagrave, author of "The Soong Dynasty
""There is nothing like an eyewitness account to heat up historical
events. . . . A fascinating, fast-paced read. . . the personal
story--about one man's failure tobuild a better world, about a
stranger's futile efforts to be accepted by a distrustful culture,
about dreams proved false and nightmares come true--is
rivetting."--Nick Gallo, "Seattle Weekly
""A gripping story about an idealistic young American who freely
cast his lot with the Chinese revolution only to be struck down by
that revolution at the floodtide of its success. . . . One lives
with him through inhuman cruelty and the mindless horror of sixteen
years of solitary confinement."--Leonard Woodcock, First American
Ambassador to China
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