Foreigners under Mao : western lives in China, 1949-1976
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Foreigners under Mao : western lives in China, 1949-1976
AUTHOR:
Hooper, Beverley.
ISBN:
9789888208746
PUBLICATION_INFO:
Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, c2016.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xi, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
CONTENTS:
'Foreign comrades' -- POW 'turncoats' -- Diplomats -- Correspondents -- 'Foreign experts' -- Students -- The Western community(ies)
ABSTRACT:
"A pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, and archives, this book 'gives a voice' to the Westerners who lived under Mao. It shows that China was not as closed to Western residents as has often been portrayed."-- Page [4] of cover.
SUBJECT:
| Visitors, Foreign -- China -- History -- 1949-1976. |
| Visitors, Foreign -- China -- History -- 20th century. |
BIBSUMMARY:
"A pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, and archives, this book 'gives a voice' to the Westerners who lived under Mao. It shows that China was not as closed to Western residents as has often been portrayed."--