China Then: The mid-1970s adventures of an Italian correspondent Earnshaw Books Gertrude Himmelfarb helps us find

Gertrude Himmelfarb helps us find a new perspective on contemporary issues through a trenchant analysis of debates and thinkers from earlier times

but social and historical phenomena as well

and wiped the country clean of Western influence

白是舊的痛苦尚未完全癒合，新的痛苦尚未完全裂開。無法化為完全的光或完全的黑暗的一天天。

and Washington for a potential cross-Strait confrontation

China Then: The mid-1970s adventures of an Italian correspondent Earnshaw Books Gertrude Himmelfarb helps us findMid 1970s Beijing was about as inscrutable as the world can get and China Then tells the story of that weird and momentous moment in history through the eyes of Italian correspondent Pier Luigi Zanatta, one of only a handful of foreign journalists living in China in those years. It was a time of great turbulence including the death of Mao, and Zanatta is a true witness to history. A talented Chinese speaking journalist, he read the tea leaves, cycled