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Chiang, Kai-shek 1887-1975 China Foreign relations 1949-1976 China Foreign relations United States Deng, Xiaoping 1904-1997 Documentary films Mao, Zedong 1893-1976 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 United States Foreign relations 1969-1974 United States Foreign relations China Visits of state ChinaFilter By Subjects
Chiang, Kai-shek 1887-1975 China Foreign relations 1949-1976 China Foreign relations United States Deng, Xiaoping 1904-1997 Documentary films Mao, Zedong 1893-1976 Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous) 1913-1994 United States Foreign relations 1969-1974 United States Foreign relations China Visits of state ChinaSummary: "An astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHIMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: By 1972 the U.S. was still mired in Vietnam, and China was reeling from the changes wrought by the cultural revolution. In February of that year the leaders of these two great nations sat down for talks for the first time since 1949. Nixon and Mao both hoped to secure trade and diplomatic relations, but did either get what they truly wanted? MacMillan answers this question and countless others,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 327.7305 MACMacMillan, Margaret
Summary: "This book looks at one of the transformative moments of the twentieth century: In February 1972, Richard Nixon, the first American president ever to visit China, and Mao Tse-tung, the enigmatic Communist dictator, met for an hour in Beijing. Their meeting changed the course of history and ultimately laid the groundwork for today's complex relationship between the countries. That monumental...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327.7305 MACChang, Jung
Summary: Based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before--and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him--this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MAO ZEDONG CHADavis, Kenneth C.
Summary: "A nonfiction account of some of the deadliest dictators in modern history." --publisher
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Square Fish/Henry Holt and Company 2022