Name: Notes From China
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Author: Barbara W. Tuchman
ISBN: 9780812986228

Type

Physical Book

Author

Barbara W. Tuchman

Publisher

Random House Trade Paperbacks

Year

2017

Language

English

Pages

112

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780812986228

Synopsis "Notes From China "

A journalistic tour de force, this wide-ranging collection by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography Stilwell and the American Experience in China is a classic in its own right. During the summer of 1972—a few short months after Nixon’s legendary visit to China—master historian Barbara W. Tuchman made her own trip to that country, spending six weeks in eleven cities and a variety of rural settlements. The resulting reportage was one of the first evenhanded portrayals of Chinese culture that Americans had ever read. Tuchman’s observations capture the people as they lived, from workers in the city and provincial party bosses to farmers, scientists, and educators. She demonstrates the breadth and scope of her expertise in discussing the alleviation of famine, misery, and exploitation; the distortion of cultural and historical inheritances into ubiquitous slogans; news media, schools, housing, and transportation; and Chairman Mao’s techniques for reasserting the Revolution. This edition also includes Tuchman’s “fascinating” (The New York Review of Books) essay, “If Mao Had Come to Washington in 1945”—a tantalizing piece of speculation on a proposed meeting between Mao and Roosevelt that would have changed the course of postwar history. “Shrewdly observed . . . Tuchman enters another plea for coolness, intelligence and rationality in American Asian policies. One can hardly disagree.”—The New York Times Book Review

Barbara W. Tuchman

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BARBARA W. TUCHMAN (New York, 1912-1989) was a historian and journalist. She began her career collaborating with publications such as The Nation, War in Spain, or New Statesman, and later carried out extensive teaching activities at institutions like Harvard University and the University of California. Despite having published various works, fame came with The Guns of August (RBA, 2012), awarded in 1962 with the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. Other books of hers published in our language include: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, The Proud Tower, The March of Folly, and The Zimmermann Telegram, also published by RBA.

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