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Notes From China
Written by Barbara W. Tuchman
Narrated by Rita Knox
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"Two hundred years ago China's imperial rulers sensed a threat to a past-oriented society in the dynamism of the West and tried to frustrate foreign entry."- Foreign Devils ... "Today, one cannot escape the impression that if only it were not for world pressures Maoist China like that of the Ming and the Manchus would be happier if it could withdraw into the broad isolation of the Middle Kingdom." - Ping-Pong ... Just one year after China's long-closed doors reopened to the West in 1971, Barbara Tuchman journeyed through its cities and countryside drawing the human face on this inscrutable giant. "A creative writer's sense of drama and a scholar's obeisance to the evidence." -New York Times
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent insights into a changing China of the early 1970s.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ms. Tuchman, a well respected historian in her own right, wrote this work as a personal account of her trip to China just months after US President Nixon visited the country in 1972. Her observation of China is balanced as a historian is expected to be with both the positives & the negatives of what she saw & heard. This also includes her essay on "If Mao Had Come to Washington in 1945." The essay by the author shows a well researched work to seek out why Mao's personal message never reached US President FDR. The reader who is interested in China's history will find a good read here.