Oliver's Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical by Lee, Oliver

Oliver's Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780615822389)

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Format: Paperback
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Oliver's Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical by Lee, Oliver

Oliver's Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical

$24.95
Oliver's Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical by Lee, Oliver

Oliver's Travels: The Making of a Chinese-American Radical

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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This memoir describes the doomed marriage of Oliver Lee's Chinese father and German mother. It then narrates Oliver's childhood in Germany, China, Mauritius, Iran, and the U.S. His physical travels were followed by his ideological journey from anti-Communism in his youth to Marxism in his middle age and robust old age. The experiences that stimulated this journey include his close-up observation of Senator Joseph McCarthy's victimization of Owen Lattimore, who was Oliver's most admired professor at Johns Hopkins University; Oliver's personal adversity, linked to his FBI file; in a Federal Government job; his conspicuous early opposition to the U.S. war in Vietnam; his consequent two-year battle to reverse the University of Hawaii's decision to expel him; and his ultimate victory in that battle in 1969, with the help of hundreds of students and many faculty members

Author: Oliver Lee
ISBN-10: 061582238X
ISBN-13: 9780615822389
Publisher: Createspace
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2014
Pages: 318
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014
BlueInk Review 06/22/2015
By Oliver Lee
By Oliver Lee
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Born in China in 1925 of Chinese and German parentage, Oliver in his childhood lived in China, Germany, Mauritius, Iran, and the U.S. He was educated at Harvard, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Chicago. He was Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii from 1963 to 2001. He and his wife, May Lee, have three children and five grandchildren, almost all living in Hawaii.

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