Notes from China

Notes from China

A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€“winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right.
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During the summer of 1972â€”a few short months after Nixonâ€™s legendary visit to Chinaâ€”master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements. The resulting reportage was one of the first evenhanded portrayals of Chinese culture that Americans had ever read.
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Tuchmanâ€™s observations capture the people as they lived, from workers in the city and provincial party bosses to farmers, scientists, and educators. She demonstrates the breadth and scope of her expertise in discussing the alleviation of famine, misery, and exploitation; the distortion of cultural and historical inheritances into ubiquitous slogans; news media, schools, housing, and transportation; and Chairman Maoâ€™s techniques for reasserting the Revolution. This edition also includes Tuchmanâ€™s â€œfascinatingâ€ (The New York Review of Books) essay, â€œIf Mao Had Come to Washington in 1945â€â€”a tantalizing piece of speculation on a proposed meeting between Mao and Roosevelt that would have changed the course of postwar history.
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â€œShrewdly observed . . . Tuchman enters another plea for coolness, intelligence and rationality in American Asian policies. One can hardly disagree.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review

Country	USA
Author	Barbara W. Tuchman
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780812986228
Edition	Reprint
ISBN	0812986229
Label	Random House Trade Paperbacks
Manufacturer	Random House Trade Paperbacks
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	112
PublicationDate	2017-01-24
Publisher	Random House Trade Paperbacks
ReleaseDate	2017-01-24
Studio	Random House Trade Paperbacks

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