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    Notes From China
    Notes From China
    Notes From China
    Audiobook2 hours

    Notes From China

    Written by Barbara W. Tuchman

    Narrated by Rita Knox

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    About this audiobook

    "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
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateMar 10, 2008
    ISBN9781440796067
    Notes From China

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    • 5/5
      Excellent insights into a changing China of the early 1970s.
    • 5/5
      Ms. 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.