Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square

Ross Terrill (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2020
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7196-5 (ISBN)

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This book explores China from the time of Mao’s rule to the crisis that unfolded at Tiananmen Square in 1989, through the eyes of Ross Terrill, a journalist, advisor, and professor. Terrill links his travels with China’s history and enriches each page with voices from village, town and city.

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.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	19 b/w photos;
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 230 mm
Gewicht	485 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7618-7196-9 / 0761871969
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-7196-5 / 9780761871965
Zustand	Neuware