Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now - Rilegato

Wong, Jan

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0385476795 ISBN 13: 9780385476799

Casa editrice: Anchor Books, 1996

Riassunto

A spirited memoir of a Chinese-Canadian's six-year romance with Maoism follows her education at Beijing University, describing how she turned in a fellow student who sought to defect and her marriage to the only American draft-dodger to seek asylum in China. Tour.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jan Wong was the Beijing correspondent for the Toronto Globe and Mail from 1988 to 1994. She is a graduate of McGill University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and is the recipient of the George Polk Award, and other honors for her reporting. Wong has written for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, among many other publications in the United States and abroad. She lives in Toronto.

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Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock and roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China.

Red China Blues begins as Wong's startling--and ironic--memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng X

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Anchor Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385476795
• ISBN 13: 9780385476799
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 405
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile