The Man Who Stayed Behind - Softcover

Sidney Rittenberg; Amanda Bennett

 
9780822326670: The Man Who Stayed Behind
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0822326671 ISBN 13: 9780822326670
Verlag: Duke University Press, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China's highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China's efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sidney Rittenberg is President of Rittenberg Associates, Incorporated--a China consulting firm. He resides on Fox Island, Washington, with his wife, Yulin.

Amanda Bennett is Managing Editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon and former Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal in Atlanta.

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"["The Man Who Stayed Behind"] reads like a riveting historical novel. But there's no fiction here . . . it's Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, the Long March, solitary confinement, despair, romance, and redemption. Sidney Rittenberg's story is a classic."--Mike Wallace, CBS-TV "60 Minutes"

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Verlag
Duke University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0822326671
ISBN 13 
9780822326670
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
476
Kontakt zum Hersteller
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Verantwortliche Person
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
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Doelen 72
Breda
4831 GR
Niederlande

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