DIGIRENT - Foreigners Under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949–1976
Beverley Hooper
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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...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Foreigners Under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949–1976 | Beverley Hooper. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
