Three months in Mao's China : between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution / Erik Zürcher ; edited by Erik-Jan Zürcher and Kim van der Zouw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zürcher, E. (Erik), author.

Contributor:

Zürcher, Erik Jan, editor.

Zouw, Kim van der, editor.

Series:

Acumen Research Editions

Standardized Title:

Verre Oosten. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zürcher, E. (Erik)--Travel--China.

Zürcher, E.

China--History--1949---Sources.

China.

China--Discovery and travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

From Moscow to Beijing

Six weeks in Beijing

To Xi'an and Luoyang

From Beijing to Guangzhou

Guangzhou and Hong Kong

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Jan 2021).

Originally published as: Erik Jan Zürcher, Kim van der Zouw (red.), Het Verre Oosten. Oog in oog met het China van Mao [isbn 978 94 6298 050 1], Amsterdam University Press, 2016.

ISBN:

1-04-078795-9

1-003-70831-5

1-04-079387-8

90-485-3158-6

90-485-3157-8

9781003708315

OCLC:

1081356094