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Author Trevor-Roper, Hugh, author

Title The China Journals : ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s / Hugh Trevor-Roper ; edited by Richard Davenport-Hines
Edition First edition
Published London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020
[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations
Contents A Note on the Text -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. China, 1965 -- 2. London and Oxford, 1965 -- 3. History of a Front Organisation, 1966 -- 4. Taiwan and Cambodia, 1967 -- Appendix A. Through Others' Eyes: Peking and London -- Appendix B. Trevor-Roper's companions in China -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "These private journals, made available here for the first time, record Hugh Trevor-Roper's visit to the People's Republic of China in the autumn of 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, and describe the controversial aftermath of his journey on his return to England. The visit was a catalogue of frustrations, which he relates with the verve and irony of a master narrator who relished the human comedy. His efforts to meet the real life and mind of China, in whose history and politics he had long been interested, were blocked at every turn by the resources of state propaganda and the claustrophobic attention of sullen Party guides. The visit was arranged by the London-based Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, which was ostensibly committed to the impartial interchange of culture and ideas. It proved to be run by a Communist claque whose ruthless methods of control outwitted the well-connected membership. Back in England, and with help from MI5, he resolved to get to the bottom of the society's affairs. His investigations provoked a tumultuous public row which Trevor-Roper, no shirker of controversy, zestfully traces in these pages. Through the book, which closes with an account of his visit to Taiwan and South-East Asia in 1967, there run the wisdom of historical perspective that he brought to contemporary events and his lifelong commitment to the defence of liberal values and practices against their ideological adversaries."-
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003 -- Travel -- China
SUBJECT Trevor-Roper, H. R. (Hugh Redwald), 1914-2003 fast
Subject Asian history.
Diplomatic relations
Politics and government
Travel
SUBJECT China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
China -- History -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024122
China -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024173
Taiwan -- History -- 1949-1976
Taiwan -- Politics and government -- 1949-1976
Subject China
Great Britain
Taiwan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Davenport-Hines, Richard, ditor
ISBN 9781350136069
1350136069
9781350136038
1350136034