New China: Three Views
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the tumultuous aftermath of China's Communist revolution, three distinct Western observers converged on the same momentous question: what was this new nation truly becoming? New China: Three Views presents a remarkable triptych of perspectives — from sinologist Otto B. Van Der Sprenkel, French journalist Robert Guillain, and British diplomat Michael Lindsay — each offering their own rigorous, firsthand assessment of Mao's China in its formative years. Together, they chronicle the sweeping political, social, and economic transformations reshaping one of the world's oldest civilisations, painting a picture that is by turns hopeful, cautionary, and deeply analytical. Edited by Van Der Sprenkel and introduced by the distinguished editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin, this volume stands as a vital document of Cold War-era political thought and Sino-Western intellectual exchange. Each contributor brings a sharply different disciplinary lens — academic, journalistic, and diplomatic — lending the work an unusual breadth and authority rarely found in single-author studies of the period. The result is a nuanced, multi-voiced portrait of a nation in radical flux, one that raises questions about ideology, governance, and modernity that resonate far beyond its era — leaving the reader to wonder which of the three views proved closest to the truth.
Author: Otto B. Van Der Sprenkel, Robert Guillain, Michael Lindsay
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Turnstile Press
Genre: Asian history
Edition: 1st uk ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
In the tumultuous aftermath of China's Communist revolution, three distinct Western observers converged on the same momentous question: what was this new nation truly becoming? New China: Three Views presents a remarkable triptych of perspectives — from sinologist Otto B. Van Der Sprenkel, French journalist Robert Guillain, and British diplomat Michael Lindsay — each offering their own rigorous, firsthand assessment of Mao's China in its formative years. Together, they chronicle the sweeping political, social, and economic transformations reshaping one of the world's oldest civilisations, painting a picture that is by turns hopeful, cautionary, and deeply analytical. Edited by Van Der Sprenkel and introduced by the distinguished editor of the New Statesman, Kingsley Martin, this volume stands as a vital document of Cold War-era political thought and Sino-Western intellectual exchange. Each contributor brings a sharply different disciplinary lens — academic, journalistic, and diplomatic — lending the work an unusual breadth and authority rarely found in single-author studies of the period. The result is a nuanced, multi-voiced portrait of a nation in radical flux, one that raises questions about ideology, governance, and modernity that resonate far beyond its era — leaving the reader to wonder which of the three views proved closest to the truth.