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Eight Months Behind the Bamboo Curtain: A Report on the First Eight Months of Communist Rule in China
Chang Kuo-Sin
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paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127. .
This was the motto of Chang Kuo-sin, and the ideal which he inspired generations of students of communication to follow. He proved his own dedication to this when, in 1949, he found himself in Nanking, the former nationalist capital, under the rule of the newly victorious communists. For eight months he lived and attempted to work in the midst of these historical changes. He managed to smuggle his detailed notes out to share with the world at a time when almost no reports of the new regime were being published. To mark the centenary of his birth, Hong Kong Baptist ... Read more
This was the motto of Chang Kuo-sin, and the ideal which he inspired generations of students of communication to follow. He proved his own dedication to this when, in 1949, he found himself in Nanking, the former nationalist capital, under the rule of the newly victorious communists. For eight months he lived and attempted to work in the midst of these historical changes. He managed to smuggle his detailed notes out to share with the world at a time when almost no reports of the new regime were being published. To mark the centenary of his birth, Hong Kong Baptist ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
City University of Hong Kong Press Hong Kong
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
ISBN
9789629372880
SKU
V9789629372880
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About Chang Kuo-Sin
Chang Kuo Sin (1916-2006) worked as a translator, a reporter, a film-maker, an author, a professor and the head of the Communication Department of the Hong Kong Baptist College. He lived through some of the most turbulent times of the twentieth century and bore witness, with his characteristic devotion to the truth, to some of the defining events of our ... Read more
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