Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution - Couverture rigide

Rowan, Roy

 
9781592282180: Chasing the Dragon: A Veteran Journalist's Firsthand Account of the 1949 Chinese Revolution
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ISBN 10 : 1592282180 ISBN 13 : 9781592282180
Editeur : The Lyons Press, 2004

Synopsis

In 1949 the Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, and Eastern Europe had arranged itself into a constellation of communist satellite states, when China-the world's most populous nation-succumbed to what seemed to be an insurmountable tide of communist successes. Dumbfounded, America wanted to know, "who lost China?" Roy Rowan was one of only two living Western journalists who covered the fall of China, and in Chasing The Dragon, he recounts his personal experiences during one of modern history's most tumultuous and significant events. Writing for Life magazine from such datelines as Nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang, Taiyuan, and China's Gettysburg-Xuzhou, he watched the horror and spectacle of the world's most oldest continuous civilization tear itself apart as Chairman Mao Zedong's ragtag army saturated the Chinese countryside, choked off major industrial cities, and waited for them to ("fall like ripe melons.") With the fall of each city, Rowan had to plan an emergency evacuation by whatever means possible.

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À propos de l?auteur

Roy Rowan veteran author-journalist has covered the world for fifty years for Time, Life, and Fortune. He is a former president of the Overseas Press Club of America.

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Éditeur
The Lyons Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1592282180
ISBN 13 
9781592282180
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
262
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