Notes from China

Resumen del libro

From the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Stilwell and the American Experience in China and The Guns of August, the classic report on the people of China and the new start of China's relationship with the West in 1972, available for the first time in a Random House trade paperback edition with a fresh new package.

In the summer of 1972, Barbara W. Tuchman spent six weeks traveling between cities and rural regions of China. A masterpiece fo journalism, Notes from China is her report of what she saw there. Revealing more of Chinese life than any account of the presidential visit of the same year, Tuchman introduces readers to the people of mid-century China: workers in the city, provinial party bosses, the military, the 'cadre,' farmers, scientists, educators. And, at the end, she examines China's then-nascent relationship with the West, a valuable perspective for readers today following contemporary American-Chinese relations.

Biografía del autor

Barbara W. Tuchman (Nueva York, 1912-1989), periodista, escritora e historiadora, se licenció en el Radcliffe College. Empezó a destacar como historiadora con El telegrama Zimmermann (1959) y alcanzó la fama internacional con Los cañones de agosto (1962), que obtuvo un enorme éxito de ventas y ganó el Premio Pulitzer. Sus dos obras siguientes, La torre del orgullo (1966) y Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), alcanzaron una repercusión excepcional. Con este último además, volvió a ganar el Pulitzer. Entre sus trabajos ás reconocidos está también Un espejo lejano (1978).