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Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Ross Terrill

Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square By Ross Terrill

Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square by Ross Terrill


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This book explores China from the time of Mao's rule to the crisis that unfolded at Tiananmen Square in 1989, through the eyes of Ross Terrill, a journalist, advisor, and professor. Terrill links his travels with China's history and enriches each page with voices from village, town and city.

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Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Summary

Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square by Ross Terrill

In Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Ross Terrillapplies his personal lens to China's historic rise and turn from Moscow to the West. This book portrays Terrill's correspondence with Zhou Enlai, Henry Kissinger, Guo Moruo, Chinese farmers, President Bush, students, Daoist monks, and dozens more. Chinese voices light up every paragraph as Terrill links turbulent events to his own exploration of China's cities and villages.

Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square Reviews

Ross Terrill's wonderfully engaging memoir opens a fascinating window onto the momentous changes in China... Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square offers a warm hearted and informative account, at once deeply personal and decidedly analytical, by one of America's most knowledgeable China scholars. -- Elizabeth J. Perry, Harvard University
Ross Terrill for over half a century has been a leading observer and scholar of China. In this fascinating book he intersperses China's contemporary history with his own experiences... As with Terrill's many other works on China, this book is a beautifully written and enjoyable read. -- Dwight Perkins, Harvard University

About Ross Terrill

Ross Terrill is associate in research at Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asia and author of eleven books on China and Australia.

Table of Contents

List of Figures



Prologue

1. Australian Door to China

2. Beijing in 1964

3. Harvard's View of China

4. Tiananmen Square and Harvard Square

5. Friends in the Cultural Revolution

6. Neighbors View China

7. Turning Points

8. Excitement Builds in Washington

9. Nixon Changes the World

10. Twilight of Mao's Era

11. Loss and Revival

12. Not Quite Normal

13. Mao and His Wife under the Lens

14. Reagan and Deng

15. Beyond the Mountains

16. Agonized Years - 1980s

17. China Rides a Tiger

Epilogue



Sources and Further Reading

About the Author

Additional information

CIN0761871969VG
9780761871965
0761871969
Australian Bush to Tiananmen Square by Ross Terrill
Used - Very Good
Paperback
University Press of America
2021-02-14
290
N/A
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