China Shakes the World

by Jack Belden

Book Overview

Book by Belden, Jack This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000E1Q2UM
• Release Date: January 1949
• Publisher: Harper & Brothers
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Meaningful book

I just finished reading this book and I found it educating and interesting. The author was masterful enough to illustrate the zeitgeist of China in those times, to show how and why did the communist succeed, to show, what is so needed in these times too, that alternative always exists. Written from the standpoint of a Westerner is not a drawback but rather an advantage of the book as the author could take a step back and analytically dissect the reality. A must read for anyone interested in Chinese history.

you wont give me strange looks if I tell you I know CCP

This book, deeply touched my heart, is so unique, yet deflected from mainstreet opinion in USA, although author tried not to be that way. So far, all you had know about Chinese Communist Party may not more than anti-human-right, uncivilized, insidious deadly manic. But, some of you may ever wondered, in very remote distance prehaps, how could them win Chinese civil war in 1940s, how could them defeat UN army in 1950s. by knowing some Korean War, you may also ask, how could CCP turned sloppiest old Chinese cowards into warriers.Well, if you have those questions, you will find answers in this book, if you never doubt about mainstreet media and don't have any of those question, you may going to draw a whole new conclusion about CCP after reading this book.If allows me please, I'll say this is the only book you will understand China in the past and present. Thanks to the author, a great unprejudiced reporter.

A book that explains why Mao (at the beginning) was good....

This is a really powerful book..... It is an account of China under the government of the Nationalist Chinese written by an American journalist who, in the end, fell under the spell of Mao's PLA not for ideological reasons-- but because of a personal affinity for the Chinese people.... who were suffering....I was advised to read this book in college by a professor who claimed that "if you can read this book and not cry, then you don't have a heart." Certainly, Belden's account of how through Communism the Chinese people relieved themselves of some of the subjugation which a feudalish society compounded by Western imperialism subjected them to, graphically illustrates suffering.... murder, rape, and many other human vices.... in ways that few other books do.... and hints at WHY people (barring events of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution) can still respect Mao as a leader and a liberator of a nation....I'd recommend this book to anyone.... if you can get a copy.... I have a feeling that this is a review that no one will ever read....