Erik Zürcher Three months in Mao's China

between the great leap forward and the cultural revolution

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Zürcher traveled for the first time to China, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Zürcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners. During a tumultuous time in world politics, as Nikita Khrushchev was deposed,...

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Engels, 1 online resource (ePub2, 119 pagina's, 8048105 bytes), Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2017

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