I Chose China: The Metamorphosis of a Country and a Man
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (805 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 078180759X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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(Jan.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. . This rare firsthand account by an American of China's transformation in the last 50 years will fascinate anyone interested in this great unfolding story. six times since his initial departure) retains the idealistic fervor that gripped many Western radicals in the 1960s: "Certainly the influence of the Chinese revolution on China and the world is beyond question. While Phoenix traveled with her political work, Shapiro raised their daughter (who now attends college in the U.S.), wrote about Jews in China and witnessed many major events, such as the Cultural Revolution, the purge of the Gang of Four and the Tiananmen Square crackdown on democracy. In 1947, at age 32, Shapiro traveled to China to perfect his Yale University-learned Chinese, and fell in love with Mao's revolution and with Phoenix, a Chinese actress, writer and revolutionary, whom he married in 1948; in 1963, he became a Chinese citizen. It has brought a better
"A very American Chinese, or a very Chinese American" according to Eric Langager. Sidney Shapiro went to China just after World War II. He had studied Chinese before coming, but he did not have a background in China, and had not planned to stay. He met and married a Chinese woman, and ended up staying on after the Communist takeover, working for the Chinese government as a tr. A sheltered and privileged American in China Li Guo Qing After reading Mr. Shapiro's "I Choose China", I have had much mixed feelings.In the book, Mr. Shapiro's tone about Mao is almost identical as the "People's Daily" - the official Chinese newspaper of propaganda nature. He is positive about Deng XiaoPing and his successors as well.In reality, Deng. When revolutionaries live on for a bit too long Dear Readers, if you ever want to know the fate of a revolutionary that lives on waaaaay past the time of the revolution, then this is the book that answers those questions.It appears that he is a character right out of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer The early parts of this book show him taken
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