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I chose China : the metamorphosis of a country and a man / Sidney Shapiro.
- Title
- I chose China : the metamorphosis of a country and a man / Sidney Shapiro.
- Author
- Shapiro, Sidney.
- Publication
- New York : Hippocrene Books, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | DS779.29.S44 A3 1999 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Shapiro, Sidney.
- Description
- v, 355 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Armed with the limited conversational Chinese he learned in the U.S. Army during World War II, Sidney Shapiro, a New York lawyer, arrives in Shanghai in 1947 for "a look around." He ends up spending the rest of his life in China." "A foreigner in an alien land, he falls in love with and marries Phoenix, a Chinese beauty and active revolutionary. Entranced by Chinese culture and society, he gradually becomes deeply and personally involved in highly dramatic developments - the defeat of the Chiang Kai-shek dictatorship and the establishment of the People's Republic, Land Reform, the Korean War, the break with the Soviet Union, the war in Vietnam, communes and the Big Leap Forward, the "cultural revolution," the Tiananmen Square Protest, economic reforms, the opening to the West, and troubled U.S.-China relations."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Note
- Includes index.
- Originally published: My China. Beijing, China : New World Press, 1997.
- Contents
- 1 Growing Up in Brooklyn, the Scholar 1915-1938 1 -- 2 Lawyer, Soldier, and the Trip to China 1939-1947 19 -- 3 Phoenix, Marriage, and the Decision to Stay 1947-1949 40 -- 4 New Beginnings Early 1950s 60 -- 5 Settling In The Mid-1950s 83 -- 6 Northwest Interlude 1957 106 -- 7 The Big Leap Forward and the Communes 1957-1958 128 -- 8 Integration Accomplished: An American-Chinese 1959-1963 143 -- 9 The "Cultural Revolution" 1966-1976 169 -- 10 Turning Point 1977-1980 207 -- 11 Beijing Bagels and Chinese Jews 1981-1984 233 -- 12 "You Don't Look Very Chinese" 1985-1988 254 -- 13 Israel, Tiananmen, and Chinese Law 1989-1990 272 -- 14 Media Encounters and Treks to the Interior 1991-1994 289 -- 15 Summing Up Half a Century 1996 310.
- ISBN
- 078180759X
- LCCN
- ^^^99088354^
- OCLC
- 42367382
- SCSB-13910251
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library