Ross Terrill

Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In Australian Bush to TiananmenSquare Ross Terrillapplies his personal lens to China's historic rise and turn from Moscow to the West. This book portrays Terrill's correspondence with Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, Guo Moruo, Chinese farmers, President Bush, students, Daoist monks, and dozens more. Chinese voices light up every paragraph as Terrill links turbulent events to his own exploration of China's cities and villages.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761878698
• Artikelnr.: 74850617

Autorenporträt

Ross Terrill is associate in research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asia and author of eleven books on China and Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Prologue
 1. Australian Door to China
 2. Beijing in 1964
 3. Harvard's View of China
 4. Tiananmen Square and Harvard Square 
5. Friends in the Cultural Revolution
 6. Neighbors View China
 7. Turning Points
 8. Excitement Builds in Washington
 9. Nixon "Changes the World"
10. Twilight of Mao's Era
11. Loss and Revival 
12. Not Quite Normal
13. Mao and His Wife under the Lens
14. Reagan and Deng
15. Beyond the Mountains
16. Agonized Years - 1980s
17. China Rides a Tiger
Epilogue
Sources and Further Reading
About the Author