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Traveling through the chaotic landscape of modern China, Fergus M. Bordewich discovers the remains of an older world that Communism did its best to erase. Mr. Bordewich, by searching so assiduously, so affectionately, and so understandingly for legacies of the Chinese past, may paradoxically be giving us some foretastes of a China yet to be.Jan Morris
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Fergus M. Bordewichs other books include My Mothers Ghost, a memoir, and Killing the White Mans Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century. As a journalist, he has traveled widely in Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Readers Digest, Smithsonian, American Heritage, and many other publications.
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- PublisherGrafton
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0246138653
- ISBN 13 9780246138651
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- Number of pages305
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