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East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925-1976 by Tom Buchanan (Hardback, 2012)

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East Wind offers the first complete, archive-based account of the relationship between China and the British Left, from the rise of modern Chinese nationalism to the death of Mao Tse tung. Beginning with the Hands Off China movement of the mid-1920s, Tom Buchanan charts the mobilisation of British opinion in defence of China against Japanese aggression, 1931-1945, and the role of the British left in relations with the People's Republic of China after 1949. He shows how this relationship was placed under stress by the growing unpredictability of Communist China, above all by the Si-Soviet dispute and the Cultural Revolution, which meant that by the 1960s China was actively supported only by a dwindling group of enthusiasts. The impact of the suppression of the student protests in Tiananmen Square (June 1989) is addressed as an epilogue. East Wind argues that the significance of the left's relationship with China has been unjustly overlooked. There were many occasions, such as the mid-1920s, the late 1930s and the early 1950s, when China demanded the full attention of the British left. It also argues that there is thing new in the current fascination with China's emergence as an ecomic power. Throughout these decades the British left was aware of the immense, unrealised potential of the Chinese ecomy, and of how China's ecomic growth could transform the world. In addition to analysing the role of the political parties and pressure groups of the left, Buchanan sheds new light on the activities of many well-kwn figures in support of China, including intellectuals such as Bertrand Russell, R H Tawney and Joseph Needham. Many other interesting stories emerge, concerning less well-kwn figures, which show the complexity of personal links between Britain and China during the twentieth century.

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Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0199570337
ISBN-13
9780199570331
eBay Product ID (ePID)
113863313

Product Key Features

Author
Tom Buchanan
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Regional History
Type
Textbook

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Weight
590g
Height
242mm
Width
164mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
21mm
First Published
2012
Content Note
12 Black and White Images, 1 Map
Author Biography
Tom Buchanan was born in London in 1960. He graduated from Wadham College Oxford with a first-class degree in Modern History in 1982, and went on to complete his DPhil at St Antony's college in 1987. He is a leading expert on Britain's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, and has written three books and numerous articles on this subject. He was appointed to his current post at OUDCE in 1990, and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He began to research Anglo-Chinese relations in the mid-1990s.
Date of Publication
19/04/2012
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Regional History

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