Notes From China, Barbara W. Tuchman
Notes From China, Barbara W. Tuchman
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Notes From China

Author: Barbara W. Tuchman

Narrator: Rita Knox

Unabridged: 2 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 03/10/2008

Synopsis

"Two hundred years ago China's imperial rulers sensed a threat to a past-oriented society in the dynamism of the West and tried to frustrate foreign entry."- Foreign Devils ... "Today, one cannot escape the impression that if only it were not for world pressures Maoist China like that of the Ming and the Manchus would be happier if it could withdraw into the broad isolation of the Middle Kingdom." - Ping-Pong ... Just one year after China's long-closed doors reopened to the West in 1971, Barbara Tuchman journeyed through its cities and countryside drawing the human face on this inscrutable giant. "A creative writer's sense of drama and a scholar's obeisance to the evidence." -New York Times

About Barbara W. Tuchman

Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) was a self-trained historian and author who achieved prominence with The Zimmerman Telegram and international fame with The Guns of August, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. She received her B.A. from Radcliffe College in 1933 and worked as a research assistant at the Institute of Pacific Relations in New York and Tokyo from 1934 to 1935. She then began working as a journalist and contributed to publications including the Nation, for which she covered the Spanish Civil War as a foreign correspondent in 1937. Before her death in 1989, she authored several other books, including The Proud Tower, A Distant Mirror, Practicing History, The March of Folly, The First Salute, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China: 1911-45, also awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In 1980 the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Tuchman to deliver the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for intellectual achievement in the humanities.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maziyar

یادداشت هایی در باب چین ، کتابی ایست از باربارا تاکمن ، نویسنده و مورخ برجسته آمریکایی . این کتاب مجموعه یادداشت های تاکمن در زمان سفربه چین است که بعدها به صورت کتاب منتشر شده . سفر تاکمن در زمانی صورت گرفته که مائو هنوز زنده و فجایعی مانند انقلاب فرهنگی هم در ابتدا و آغاز راه بوده . نویسنده تلاش کر......more

Goodreads review by Mona

I really enjoyed The Guns of August also by Barbara Tuchman. So when I was looking for a title with a place in its name for my 30 NF Book Challenge and I saw this I thought win-win. While not as compelling as GOA this was a thought provoking book. The book while insightful is short. I liked how she......more

Goodreads review by Porter

Listened to on Good Reads. Tuchman is a well respected historian who won a Pulitzer for a book a Stillwell in China. This book is what it says, notes from her visit to China in 1971. This makes her one of the first non Diplomats to visit the country in over a generation. As such I consider this to be m......more

Goodreads review by Badger

A must for Tuchman completists. This is different from her other books since it is really a short set of notes on a trip she made to China in 1971 (?) ahead of Nixon's historic trip to that country. She was specifically invited by the Chinese govt to take this trip. She doesn't hold back criticism t......more

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