In the eye of the China storm : a life between East and West / Paul T.K. Lin with Eileen Chen Lin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lin, Paul T. K., 1920-2004.

Contributor:

Lin, Eileen Chen, 1924-

Series:

Footprints (Cheltenham, England) ; 14.

Footprints (Cheltenham, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lin, Paul T. K., 1920-2004.

Lin, Paul T. K.

Scholars--China--Biography.

Scholars.

China.

China--History--Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2011]

Summary:

Born in Vancouver in 1920 to immigrant parents, Paul Lin became a passionate advocate for China while attending university in the United States. With the establishment of the People's Republic, and amid the growing tensions of the Cold War, Lin abandoned his doctoral studies, moving to China with his young family. He spent the next fifteen years participating in the country's revolutionary transformation. In 1964, concerned by the political climate under Mao and determined to bridge the growing divide between China and the West, Lin returned to Canada and was appointed head of McGill University's Centre for East Asian Studies. His commitment to building ties between China and the West contributed to the establishment of diplomatic relations between Canada and China in 1970, to Us President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972, and to . the creation of numerous cultural, academic, and trade exchanges. The memoir he began late in life remained unfinished after his death until his wife, Eileen Chen Lin, completed the manuscript. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I 1920-1949

1 In the Beginning Was Father 3

2 A Budding Scholar and Orator 11

3 China Family / Eileen Chen Shu Lin Lin, Eileen Chen Shu 26

4 Two Lives Entwined / Eileen Chen Shu Lin Lin, Eileen Chen Shu 38

5 From Academics to Activism 48

Part II 1950-1964

6 Journey to New China 63

7 Beijing Learnings 76

8 A Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party 92

Part III 1965-1982

9 Return to Canada and Cold War Chill 113

10 Bright Beginning and Tragedy 131

11 Cold War Warming 142

12 Passionate Dialogues 160

13 Cultural Revolution Conundrums 179

14 China Opens to the World 205

15 Generations 217

Part IV 1982-2004

16 University of East Asia, Macau 235

17 From Idealism to Idealistic Pragmatism 251

18 An Enigma Reconsidered 272.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780773538573

0773538577

OCLC:

693809708