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Foreigners under Mao : Western Lives in China, 1949-1976 /

Foreigners Under Mao 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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Hooper, Beverly (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Foreigners Under Mao 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 countries that recognized the People's Republic, the few foreign correspondents permitted to work in China, "foreign experts," and language students. Each of these groups led distinct lives under Mao, while sharing the experience of a highly politicized society and of official measures to isolate them from everyday China.
Description:Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-276) and index.
ISBN:9789888313754
Accès:Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.