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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley

Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley

Brady, Anne-Marie

Hardcover

Series: Chinese Worlds

Biographies GeneralChinese HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0700714936
ISBN13: 9780700714933
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 10 2002
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.16 Depth: 9.66
Language: English
This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the most famous, or indeed infamous, foreigners in modern China: Rewi Alley, who arrived in China in 1927 from New Zealand and lived there for the rest of his life. Alley was regarded as a great humanitarian and internationalist. Later he became an outspoken 'foreign friend' of the Chinese regime and prolific propagandist on the new China. This book examines the myth and reality of his life, using them to explore the role of foreigners in China's diplomatic relations and their sensitive place in China after 1949, laying bare the important role of China's 'foreign friends' in Chinese foreign policy.

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