| - Book Title: The Inside Story of Communist China
- Author: Valentin Chu
- ISBN: MW0077239124
- Publisher: Allen and Unwin
- Year Published: 1964
- Our Normal Price: £22.00 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- 10% Discounted Price: £19.80 GBP ($0.00 USD)
- Description: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1964, first edition: green cloth hardcover with rust coloured lettering to spine: approximately 5.5 x 8.75 inchs tall: maps to endpapers: 320 pages including index. Synopsis: Introduced in the Preface with ' The purpose of this book is to describe, analyse and interpret Communist China to Western readers' and written from the viewpoint of the 1960s, this perceptive assessment of China's history, power and potential is arranged in five parts as follows: – Part One: East-West Collision ( Scrutinising the Inscrutable. The Red Chinese Puzzle. Old Dragon in New Waves.). Part Two: the Instant Paradise. (Gate of Heavenly Peace. The Mad Statisticians. How to Eat without Food. Backyard Furnaces – an Exercise in Metaphysics. The Bamboo H-Bomb. Home, Confucius, and Chaste Widows. Literature of the Illiterate.) Part Three: The Macabre Pilgrimage. (Soft Sell and Stranglehold. The Hundred Flowers and the Frenetic Gardener. Round-Trip to the Point-of-No-Return. When Taoists Shadowbox Maoists.) Part Four: The Two Chinas (The Private Worlds of Chiang and Mao. Which China?.) Part Five: Into Deeper Waters. (Ruse of the Vacant City. Dragonology – the Game of China Watches. Shades of Genghis Khan. Wither China.?) Condition: no just jacket: remains of small adhesive label front end paper: very clean and good over all.
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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