- Relations, Biography
In this astonishing memoir by the only foreigner ever raised inside the remote world of China's powerful and reclusive leadership, Sirin Phathanothai provides a one-of-a-kind eyewitness account of daily life among the near-mythic founders of Mao's Communist China.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and bleak.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Sirin Phathanothai.
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780743217989
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“"CHILDREN, I HAVE AN INVITATION FOR YOU to go to China from my close friend Premier Zhou Enlai.”
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