Three Months in Mao's China

Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
0. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-94-6298-181-2
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Asian History

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners.

During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed, Lyndon Johnson won the US presidential election against Barry Goldwater, and China became a nuclear power, Zürcher experienced the reality of China under Mao Zedong. Only recently discovered, these documents portray, viewed through an expert's eye, a land in the midst of its own massive political, social, and economic change. Both a fascinating account by an informed outsider and a reminder of just how much China and the rest of the world have changed over the last fifty years, this is essential reading for anyone interested in East Asia and Asian history as a whole.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zürcher, Erik-Jan

van der Zouw, Kim

Weitere Mitwirkende

Collingwood, Vivien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 9 From Moscow to Beijing 25 Letter 1: Beijing, 24 September 26 Six weeks in Beijing 35 Letter 2: Beijing, 3 October 35 Letter 3: Beijing, 10 October 49 Letter 4: Beijing, 18 October 58 Letter 5: Beijing, 23 October 65 Letter 6: Beijing, 25 October 71 Letter 7: Beijing, 29 October 74 Letter 8: Beijing, 1 November 78 To Xi’an and Luoyang 83 Letter 9: Luoyang, 9 November 93 From Beijing to Guangzhou 99 Letter 10: Beijing, 14 November 101 Letter 11: Nanjing, 22 November 105 Letter 12: Suzhou, 29 November 111 Letter 13: Shanghai, 6 December 119 Guangzhou and Hong Kong 127 Letter 14: Guangzhou, 13 December 127 Letter 15: Guangzhou, 19 December 132 Letter 16: Hong Kong, Saturday 26 December 139

Über Autor(innen)

Collingwood, Vivien
Rob de Wijk is the Director of the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and Professor of International Relations and Security at the Campus the Hague of Leiden University. He was previously a Professor in the field of International Relations at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy and Head of the Defense Concepts Department at the Dutch Ministry of Defense.

Zürcher, Erik-Jan
Erik-Jan Zürcher is director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, as well as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Turkish Studies at Leiden University.

van der Zouw, Kim
Kim van der Zouw is an editor and translator.

Kim van der Zouw is an editor and translator. "https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/erik-jan-zurcher" target="_blank"> Erik-Jan Zürcher is director of the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, as well as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Turkish Studies at Leiden University. Rob de Wijk is the Director of the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) and Professor of International Relations and Security at the Campus the Hague of Leiden University. He was previously a Professor in the field of International Relations at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy and Head of the Defense Concepts Department at the Dutch Ministry of Defense.