The Man Who Stayed Behind by Rittenberg, Sidney

The Man Who Stayed Behind (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822326670)

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Format: Paperback
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The Man Who Stayed Behind by Rittenberg, Sidney

The Man Who Stayed Behind

$32.95
The Man Who Stayed Behind by Rittenberg, Sidney

The Man Who Stayed Behind

$32.95
Format: Paperback
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The Man Who Stayed Behind is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China's highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, The Man Who Stayed Behind provides a human perspective on China's efforts to build a new society. Critical of both his own mistakes and those of the Communist leadership, Rittenberg nevertheless gives an even-handed account of a country that is now free of internal war for the first time in a hundred years.

Author: Sidney Rittenberg
ISBN-10: 0822326671
ISBN-13: 9780822326670
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/03/2001
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.84lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.16w x 1.40d
By Sidney Rittenberg
By Sidney Rittenberg
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Sidney Rittenberg is President of Rittenberg Associates, Incorporated--a China consulting firm. He resides on Fox Island, Washington, with his wife, Yulin.

Amanda Bennett is Managing Editor of The Oregonian in Portland, Oregon and former Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal in Atlanta.

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