President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China. However, eighteen years previously, former prime minister Clement Attlee had also been to China to shake Chairman Mao by the hand. In the second half of 1…
Uncovers the story of British politicians, scientists, and artists who were invited to China by Chou En-lai in 1954. Traces their journey across the USSR and Mongolia, captures their arguments and impressions, and assesses their role in diplomatic relations.
President Nixon's famous 1972 trip has gone down in history as the first great opening between the West and Communist China. However, eighteen years previously, former prime minister Clement Attlee had also been to China to shake Chairman Mao by the hand. In the second half of 1…
This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from Chinas most cosmopolitan cityShanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life among more i…
This book translates and contextualizes the recollections of men and women who built, lived, and worked in some of the factory compounds relocated from Chinas most cosmopolitan cityShanghai. Small Third Line factories became oases of relatively prosperous urban life among more i…
In 1975, M.R. Kurkrit Pramoj met Mao Zedong, marking the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations and a discursive rupture with the previous narrative of Communist powers as an existential threat. This book critically interrogates the birth of bamboo (bending with the wind…
In 1975, M.R. Kurkrit Pramoj met Mao Zedong, marking the eventual establishment of diplomatic relations and a discursive rupture with the previous narrative of Communist powers as an existential threat. This book critically interrogates the birth of bamboo (bending with the wind…