To Beijing after Nixon : a grand tour of China in 1972

Wills,Jonathan2023

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Half a century ago, in February 1972, US President Richard M. Nixon flew to Beijing to break the ice with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong. As China opened up to the outside world during the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, foreign visitors began to arrive in the vast country. Jonathan Wills was in a party from the Scotland-China Association that toured China by steam train in September 1972. Working as a research assistant and photographer for Harry Dickinson, an electrical engineer from Edinburgh University, the author visited communes, factories, schools and universities in and around Guangzhou, Zhengzhou, Beijing, Nanjing, Wuxi and Shanghai on a 26-day, 3,000-mile trip. This lavishly illustrated account of an extraordinary journey portrays Chinese daily life before the death of Mao and the victory of his enemies, the 'capitalist roaders' in the Chinese Communist Party who would halt his gigantic experiments in collective farming and self-sufficiency - and begin to turn China into a global economic superpower.