The China Journals : ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s / Hugh Trevor-Roper ; edited by Richard Davenport-Hines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trevor-Roper, Hugh, author.

Contributor:

Davenport-Hines, Richard, ditor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003--Travel--China.

Trevor-Roper, H. R.

China--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

China.

China--History--1949-1976.

China--Politics and government--1949-1976.

Taiwan--History--1949-1976.

Taiwan.

Taiwan--Politics and government--1949-1976.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 277 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

"These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of his journey on his return to England. The visit was a catalogue of frustrations, which he relates with the verve and irony of a master narrator who relished the human comedy. His efforts to meet the real life and mind of China, in whose history and politics he had long been interested, were blocked at every turn by the resources of state propaganda and the claustrophobic attention of sullen Party guides. The visit was arranged by the London-based Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, which was ostensibly committed to the impartial interchange of culture and ideas. It proved to be run by a Communist claque whose ruthless methods of control outwitted the well-connected membership. Back in England, and with help from MI5, he resolved to get to the bottom of the society's affairs. His investigations provoked a tumultuous public row which Trevor-Roper, no shirker of controversy, zestfully traces in these pages. Through the book, which closes with an account of his visit to Taiwan and South-East Asia in 1967, there run the wisdom of historical perspective that he brought to contemporary events and his lifelong commitment to the defence of liberal values and practices against their ideological adversaries."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A Note on the Text

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. China, 1965

2. London and Oxford, 1965

3. History of a Front Organisation, 1966

4. Taiwan and Cambodia, 1967

Appendix A. Through Others' Eyes: Peking and London

Appendix B. Trevor-Roper's companions in China

Acknowledgements

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350136069

1350136069

9781350136038

1350136034

9781350136045

1350136042

OCLC:

1134074922