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Summary:

""A highly personal, honest, funny and well-informed account of China's hyperactive effort to forget its past and reinvent its future.""-The New York Times Book Review As one the first American students admitted to China after the communist revolution, John Pomfret was exposed to a country still emerging from the twin tragedies of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. Crammed into a dorm room with seven Chinese men, Pomfret contended with all man.

Author/Creator:

Pomfret, John, 1959-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Chinese lessons: five classmates and the story of the new China [by Pomfret, J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Chinese Lessons [by Pomfret, J.] (New York : Henry Holt & Company,c2006 — ISBN 9780805086645)

Subjects:

China — History — 1976-2002 — Biography

China — History — Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 — Biography

Nanjing da xue — Alumni and alumnae — Biography

Pomfret, John, 1959-

American students — China — Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) — Biography

Foreign correspondents — China — Biography

Nanjing da xue

Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976)

1966-2002

American students

Foreign correspondents

Alumni and alumnae

China

China — Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)

Genres:

History

Biographies

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version of record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS779.28 .P664 2006eb

ISBNs:

9781429935180
1429935189

OCLC Numbers:

1438672594