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Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley (Chinese Worlds)
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by Anne-Mari Brady
Sales Rank: 509071
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List Price: $160.00
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
Published by: RoutledgeCurzonEdition: 1st Edition November 27, 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0700714936
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0700714933
Book Dimensions:
9.7 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 1.1 pounds
Product Review
'Brady's study of Alley is a work of forensic intelligence' - Books in Canada
'Brady's analysis is on the whole a very fair one and a useful account of Alley's role in Sino-New Zealand relations.' - Christchurch Press
'Alley's inner world, the world he grew increasingly wary of sharing either in conversation or in letters, can only be imagined. This book lays the ground for enabling us to begin to penetrate this world She (the author) has opened up the path for a clearer and more balanced understanding of one of the most colourful and remarkable lives ever lived by a New Zealander.' - The Listener
'Before this book, almost everything that New Zealanders (journalists, politicians, academics) had written about Alley was hagiographic drivelit would be nice to think that Brady's temperate, reasonable and well-documented book does provoke atleast some red faces.' - The Dominion Post
'Ms Brady has written a very important book about a big subject.' - Asian Wall Street Journal
'Anne-Marie Brady is amongst the first to tackle the subject of sexuality in self-imposed exile a generally sympathetic and understanding account of Alley's life and its significance.' - China Review
'Brady's study is an interesting look at a fascinating subject - the PRC's long-term foreign friends - and by moving beyond hagiography or blanket condemnation one begins to see the complexity of personality and motives behind their personae.' - The China Journal
Product Description
This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the most famous, or indeed infamous, foreigners in modern China: Rewi Alley, who arrived in China in 1927 from New Zealand and lived there for the rest of his life. Alley was regarded as a great humanitarian and internationalist. Later he became an outspoken 'foreign friend' of the Chinese regime and prolific propagandist on the new China. This book looks at the myth and reality of his life, using them to explore the role of foreigners in China's diplomatic relations and their sensitive place in China after 1949, laying bare the important role of China's 'foreign friends' in Chinese foreign policy.
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