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Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley

By Anne-Marie Brady
Series: Chinese Worlds
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This work offers a radical re-examination of Rewi Alley's life, a New Zealander who lived in China from 1927 and became a notable humanitarian and propagandist for the Chinese regime. Using both Chinese and previously unpublished western sources, the book dispels myths to reveal the complex reality of Alley's role as a foreign friend in China's diplomatic relations and the sensitive position foreigners held after 1949.
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Ideal for readers interested in modern Chinese history, international relations, and critical biographies, as well as those exploring the dynamics of foreign influence in China’s political landscape.

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This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history.

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This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley, utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the most famous, or indeed infamous, foreigners in modern China: Rewi Alley, who arrived in China in 1927 from New Zealand and lived there for the rest of his life.

Alley was regarded as a great humanitarian and internationalist. Later he became an outspoken 'foreign friend' of the Chinese regime and a prolific propagandist on the new China. Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley examines the myth and reality of his life, using them to explore the role of foreigners in China's diplomatic relations and their sensitive place in China after 1949, laying bare the important role of China's 'foreign friends' in Chinese foreign policy.

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‘Brady's study of Alley is a work of forensic intelligence’ - Books in Canada. ‘A fair and useful account of Alley's role in Sino-New Zealand relations’ - Christchurch Press. ‘She has opened up the path for a clearer and more balanced understanding of one of New Zealand’s most remarkable lives’ - The Listener. ‘Before this book, much was hagiographic drivel... Brady’s well-documented book may provoke some red faces’ - The Dominion Post. ‘A very important book about a big subject’ - Asian Wall Street Journal.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138863378

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 March 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 410g

Pages: 224

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Anne-Marie Brady Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction Science & Nature Series: Chinese Worlds

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