Three Months in Mao's China: Between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution

by Erik Zürcher

In the fall of 1964, sinologist Erik Z rcher travelled to China for the first time, a country he had been studying since 1947. A collection of Z rcher's personal writings from his trip, including letters and diary entries, Three Months in Mao's China offers not only new insights about the great scholar, but also a rich picture of communist China, which was in those days still almost completely inaccessible to Westerners.

During a tumultuous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462981817
• ISBN13: 9789462981812
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.2"