800,000,000: The Real China
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of political journalism and firsthand reportage, 800,000,000: The Real China presents a vivid and penetrating portrait of the People's Republic of China during the early 1970s, just before Nixon's historic visit opened the country to the West. Ross Terrill, an Australian-American scholar and China expert, chronicles his rare access to a nation largely closed off to outsiders, detailing the daily lives, political fervour, and social realities of the Chinese people under Mao Zedong's rule. With sharp analytical clarity and a journalist's eye for telling detail, Terrill uncovers the gap between Communist Party ideology and lived experience on the ground. The result is a nuanced, authoritative account that challenged Western assumptions about China and remains an essential document of one of the twentieth century's most consequential political transformations.
Author: Ross Terrill
Format: Paperback
Published: 1975, Penguin
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark work of political journalism and firsthand reportage, 800,000,000: The Real China presents a vivid and penetrating portrait of the People's Republic of China during the early 1970s, just before Nixon's historic visit opened the country to the West. Ross Terrill, an Australian-American scholar and China expert, chronicles his rare access to a nation largely closed off to outsiders, detailing the daily lives, political fervour, and social realities of the Chinese people under Mao Zedong's rule. With sharp analytical clarity and a journalist's eye for telling detail, Terrill uncovers the gap between Communist Party ideology and lived experience on the ground. The result is a nuanced, authoritative account that challenged Western assumptions about China and remains an essential document of one of the twentieth century's most consequential political transformations.