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Foreigners under Mao western lives in China, 1949-1976
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Title
Foreigners under Mao [electronic resource] : western lives in China, 1949-1976 / Beverley Hooper.
ISBN
9789888313754
9789888208746
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Hong Kong [China] : Hong Kong University Press, [2016] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xi, 292 pages) :) : illustrations
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Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Description based on print version record.
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Summary
Foreigners Under Mao is 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. The book examines the lives of six different groups of Westerners: "foreign comrades" who made their home in Mao's China, twenty-two former Korean War POWs who controversially chose China ahead of repatriation, diplomats of Western countries that recognized the People's Republic, the few foreign correspondents permitted to work in China, "foreign experts," and language students. Each of these groups led distinct lives under Mao, while sharing the experience of a highly politicized society and of official measures to isolate them from everyday China.
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Project MUSE – UPCC 2017 Complete.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-276) and index.
Contents
Introduction : Living under Mao
part I. ‘Foreign comrades'
1. Into Mao's China
2. Identities and roles
3. Interactions
part II. POW ‘ turncoats'
4. Choosing China
5. Disenchantment
part III. Diplomats
6. ‘The world within'
7. Licensed contacts and beyond
8. Cold War diplomacy
part IV. Correspondents
9. ‘Our life and hard times'
10. The web of relationships
11. ‘Dateline
Peking'
part V. ‘Foreign experts'
12. Helping China?
13. Personal and political dynamics
part VI. Students
14. Studying, Maoist style
15. Breaking down the barriers?
part VII. The Western community(ies)
16. Across divides
17. After Mao.
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