Cantitate/Preț
Produs
Total produse
Vezi coșul
AUSTRALIAN BUSH TO TIANANMEN SPB de Ross Terrill

AUSTRALIAN BUSH TO TIANANMEN SPB

Autor Ross Terrill
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 dec 2020
In Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Ross Terrillapplies his personal lens to China's historic rise and turn from Moscow to the West. This book portrays Terrill's correspondence with Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, Guo Moruo, Chinese farmers, President Bush, students, Daoist monks, and dozens more. Chinese voices light up every paragraph as Terrill links turbulent events to his own exploration of China's cities and villages.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 24098 lei

Nou

Puncte Express: 361
Preț estimativ în valută:
4612€ • 4791$ • 3831£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 01-15 februarie 25

 Adaugă în coș

Wish list
Gift list
Am citit!
Adaugă în listă
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761871965
ISBN-10: 0761871969
Pagini: 290
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Rowman & Littlefield

Notă biografică

A world-renowned China specialist and former Associate in Research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Ross Terrill is the author of more than a dozen books. Raised in rural Australia, he graduated in history and political science from the University of Melbourne in 1962 and served in the Australian Army. He took a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard in 1970, where his thesis on the philosophy of R. H. Tawney was awarded the Sumner Prize and was later published by Harvard University Press as Socialism as Fellowship. While teaching at Harvard on political thought, Chinese politics, and international affairs, Terrill wrote 800,000,000: The Real China, The Future of China: After Mao, Flowers on an Iron Tree: Five Cities of China, and the original edition of Mao, his acclaimed biography of the Chinese leader. As a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly he won the National Magazine Award for Reporting Excellence and the George Polk Memorial Award for Outstanding Magazine Reporting for writings on China. In 1979 he became an American citizen. Terrill is a many-time contributor to the New York Times and other newspapers, including Newsday, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Washington Post. In addition to the Atlantic Monthly, he has written for Foreign Affairs, New Republic, National Geographic, World Monitor and other magazines. More recent books he has written include The White-Boned Demon: A Biography of Madame Mao and The Australians. Terrill has moved within a triangle of academia, journalistic writing, and public life, testifying numerous times before committees of the United States Congress. He has been a special commentator for CBS News, the Today Show, ABC's Nightline, Firing Line and-often from China-on NPR's All Things Considered.Terrill has visited China almost every year for many years and within China his Mao in Chinese translation has sold more than 1.5 million copies. He spent the month of June, 1989 in Beijing, including the climactic night of June 3-4 in Tiananmen Square. Recently, he has been visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin and at Monash University in Australia. Terrill's The New Chinese Empire won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2020, he published his memoir, From Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square.Terrill lives in Boston.

Descriere

This book explores China from the time of Mao's rule to the crisis that unfolded at Tiananmen Square in 1989, through the eyes of Ross Terrill, a journalist, advisor, and professor. Terrill links his travels with China's history and enriches each page with voices from village, town and city.