Communist China in Retrospect: East European Sinologists Remember the First Fifteen Years of the PRC (Saarbrücker Politikwissenschaft) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631476485 ISBN 13: 9783631476482

Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1995

Synopsis

In this volume, five reports on the experiences of Central and East European sinologists in Communist China who lived in that country between 1950 and 1966 several years and in different positions are collected, systematized, and evaluated. To present the results of this effort, chronographic criteria are applied. However, this book is certainly not another history of the PRC. Although it may be called a piece of historiography it differs from conventional histories in that the reports included tell what their authors have been witnessing and not what they know about China, and that in that sense they are both highly fragmentary and highly subjective. On the other hand, they provide insights into the daily life of citizens of socialist countries in the PRC as well as into daily life in China in the 1950s and early 1960s. Moreover, China specialists may find a wealth of new footnotes provided by the reports.

About this title

About the Author:

The editor does research at the Saar University/Saarbrücken.
The Contributors: Marie-Luise Näth, Barna Tálas, Jan Rowinski, Roland Felber, Iskra Doumkova, Karin Tomala

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 3631476485
• ISBN 13: 9783631476482
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Domes-Näth Marie-Luise