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Foreigners under Mao : Western Lives in China, 1949-1976.
Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949-1976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, and archives, this book 'gives a voice' to the Westerners who lived under Mao. It shows that...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Aberdeen :
Hong Kong University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949-1976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, and archives, this book 'gives a voice' to the Westerners who lived under Mao. It shows that China was not as closed to Western residents as has often been portrayed. The book examines the lives of six different groups of Westerners: 'foreign comrades' who made their home in Mao's China, twenty-two former Korean War POWs who controversially chose China ahead of repatriation, diplomats of Western coun. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (305 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789888313754 9888313754 |