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The China Society for People's Friendship Studies (PFS) in cooperation with the Foreign Language Press (FLP)in Beijing has arranged for re-publication, in the series entitled Light on China , of some fifty books written in English between the 1860s and the founding years of the People's Republic, by journalistic and other sympathetic eyewitnesses of the revolutionary events described. Most of these books have long been out of print, but are now being brought bach to life for the benefit of readers in China and abroad.
Book Dimension:
length: (cm)23.8 width:(cm) 15.5
《中国震撼世界》的作者,杰克·贝尔登,究竟是一个什么样的人呢?讲老实话,我所知道的关于他的东西,都来自于零散的书评、前言、简介,再就是这本书本身,可以在五分钟内讲完。简单地说,他是个二战期间的知名战地记者,报道过抗战(1941、1942)、美英中在缅甸的失利(1942)、盟军的北非作战(1943)和登陆法国(1944)等战事,于1946年底再次来到中国,全程目睹了中国内战并写出了《中国震撼世界》这本书。
杰克·贝尔登与中国相当有缘。一九三三年,他作为一名水手在香港第一次登上东方的土地,一呆就是九年。结果他不仅学会了基本的汉语,还对中国的情况有了相当深入的了解。不错,那个年代还有不少美国人也声称爱中国,但他们大多是笑容可掬的军政人士、口是心非的神职人员、涂脂抹粉的官僚太太、坑蒙拐骗的商人掮客,难得有能深入中国并了解其下层人民的生活和心理的。而贝尔登显然...