1st Edition
Three Months in Mao's China Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction, From Moscow to Beijing, Letter 1: Beijing, 24 September, Six weeks in Beijing, Letter 2: Beijing, 3 October, Letter 3: Beijing, 10 October, Letter 4: Beijing, 18 October, Letter 5: Beijing, 23 October, Letter 6: Beijing, 25 October, Letter 7: Beijing, 29 October, Letter 8: Beijing, 1 November 78 To Xi’an and Luoyang, Letter 9: Luoyang, 9 November, From Beijing to Guangzhou, Letter 10: Beijing, 14 November, Letter 11: Nanjing, 22 November, Letter 12: Suzhou, 29 November, Letter 13: Shanghai, 6 December, Guangzhou and Hong Kong, Letter 14: Guangzhou, 13 December, Letter 15: Guangzhou, 19 December, Letter 16: Hong Kong, Saturday 26 December
Biography
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.|Kim van der Zouw is an editor and translator.|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.
